1998-11-09 - Re: Advertising Creepiness

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@gulf.net>
To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com>
Message Hash: 08e2950d6bda7aac4494590c6fb7fd1a9df5a55dd0a6bdaf6e01983e794f69ab
Message ID: <199811091746.LAA05131@pompano.pcola.gulf.net>
Reply To: <36471E6E.3E8E96D4@brainlink.com>
UTC Datetime: 1998-11-09 18:26:00 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 02:26:00 +0800

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@gulf.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 02:26:00 +0800
To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com>
Subject: Re: Advertising Creepiness
In-Reply-To: <36471E6E.3E8E96D4@brainlink.com>
Message-ID: <199811091746.LAA05131@pompano.pcola.gulf.net>
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In <36471E6E.3E8E96D4@brainlink.com>, on 11/09/98 
   at 11:55 AM, Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com> said:

>Might be nice to have some sort of filter list for browsers that says "If
>GIF89 and (it's linked elsewhere, or to a CGI or at the top of the page)"
>don't show it.  I guess it's time to do some Mozilla source hacking...

Rather than hacking nutscrape you might want to run through a modified
proxy and have it filter all such garbage.

This stuff is not a problem as I only run textmode for http with no
java/javascript. If I can't navigate a website that way it is their loss.


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