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How much of the internet have you blocked?
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:26 pm
by Layzie Bone
I have blocked 77 computers entirely from any kind of communication from my computer, 62 are from the university's network.
That is 0.00000179% of the internet
of the 62 wcu computers, that is 0.095% of thier network blocked.
Likewise they have all been blocked for various reasons, port scans, flooding my radio, or some other reason.
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:43 pm
by nesman
I used to have something along the lines of verisign.com blocked in my host file. Had something to do with speeding up context menus.
There are a few that I should block, as they're flooding my apache logs with nonsense. The problem with blocking ip's is that you never know who's behind them. A lot of them are dynamic, so the scum you block today might be a valid user tomorrow.
AdBlock, on the other hand, blocks all kinds of stuff.
Maybe we should share our AdBlock filters? I think mine's decent
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:59 pm
by Rat
Nes... I've installed Filterset.G along with my AdBlock. They work wonderfully together. You can get the filterset - which is updated often - from the firefox extensions site.
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:35 pm
by nesman
I've been thinking of testing it on my new computer at work. If nothing else, it'd be cool to see what all it blocks. I honestly think AdBlock is the best thing that ever happened to FireFox. When I pull sites up in alternate browsers and start seeing banner ads again, it really makes me miss my AdBlock.