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At 01:51 PM 7/19/01, John Starta wrote: Thanks for the fix.At 11:19 AM 7/19/01 -0400, Daniel Senie wrote:The URL above and on the http://www.noads.org/ web site are incorrect and will not install the needed cookie to prevent the X10 ads. It shouldn't be "&GE=", it should be "&PAGE=" ... as in:At 08:26 AM 7/19/01, Frank Thomas wrote:There's an ampersand missing between 3652 and GE in the above. Adding that made it work. For those who prefer less typing, I've added the corrected URL as a link on http://www.noads.org/.Yep, they even have an opt out page. Although I found this from another source and no obvious way to this from the frontend of their site. For what its worth the 'popunders' from x10 are cookie based. The url below will opt you out for 10years (leap years figured also). The week or so after they started these annoying things I noticed that x10 was one of the highest traffic sites (I may be wrong) of the week... I will NEVER buy anything from them... http://www.x10.com/home/optout.cgi?DAY=3652GE=http://www.x10.com/x10ads1.htm Actually, what I found is that the PAGE= thing seems to be more concerned with where to take you after you click on the link. When I had it as GE=, the cookie still got properly created, but you wound up on a dummy page. To experiment further with this, I added a new link at the bottom of the noads.org page which just says "test". This runs you through the optout.cgi, then lands you on another page at noads.org which tells you all was completed. I'll probably update the main link to this thing to do that, and users won't ever see an X10 page in the whole proces. Those who write silly CGI... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie [email protected] Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com
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