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IE now ad free!
Authored by: balderd on Apr 07, '02 12:54:22PM

The macwrite.com piece is terrific. Building the machines file in Netinfo Manager and installing eDexter has made IE virtually ad and pop free.

I'm *so* happy!



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Delays in main site DNS lookup?
Authored by: houchin on Apr 08, '02 06:53:30PM

do you notice that the initial dns lookup (of the desired main page) is considerably slower? The ads no don't show up, but IE now spends about 3 seconds "looking for" the initial site.



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Delays in main site DNS lookup?
Authored by: mzajac on Apr 09, '02 01:07:51PM

I had the same problem--slowed down surfing instead of speeding it up.

You have to make sure your web sharing is turned on, so that your own computer returns a result for each ad immediately.

You may also want to replace your index.html page with something simple--mine has a grey background and the word "[ad]". Loads quickly and lets me see how many stinky ads I'm missing.



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Delays in main site DNS lookup?
Authored by: houchin on Apr 09, '02 03:37:15PM

I was running eDexter, so the return of the pages wasn't the problem. The delay was in the initial IP lookup of the main site. My guess is that with 8000 entries in my machines netinfo directory, it was taking a while to get to the point where it fell through to the DNSAgent.

I've gone back to the old system for now. I'm on broadband both at home and work, and the delays for hostname lookup were worse than the time spent downloading the ads.



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IE now ad free!
Authored by: li_hao_ on May 05, '02 04:15:05PM

My shareware ADGate (http://www.macosxapps.com/article.php?story=20020429165220859) does just this but easier. I tried to make it be listed at VersionTracker, but after two submits, still no feedback - nothing. Guess my ADGate does do the job well ;-)



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