Re: [PLUG] AntiAd HOSTS file to DNS?

["Kam Salisbury" <kam@kamsalisbury.com>]

> No excuse!  Give them Mozilla for Windows.

I married her and her liking of MS products too...

>
>
>>I am trying to decide if converting the HOSTS file to DNS records instead
>>may be a worthwhile (and cross platform) endeavor.
>>
>>
>
> Sounds like a good idea.  It would be even better if it becomes user
> configurable.  Maybe a little GTK+ front end?  No... An HTML interface?
> The thing is, I wouldn't want it to block too many sites that I'm not
> aware of.

And THAT is the real problem. Everyone will be OK with blocking
adclick.com but not msn.com, aol.com? So user control is not really
control at all, no matter what kind of interface I use. Remember, my
ultimate goal is to wrap this up in some scripting to be handed up to
freshmeat or sourceforge for small companies to use in their efforts.
So... in a small, lets say 25 persons, the one person that does not like
yahoo.com will mess it up for everyone that could care less or actuall
uses that domain for something.

I am starting to believe that the real answer to this problem area is
proxying. Besides Squid, wasn't there a smaller privacy (anti-ad popup)
oriented proxy named Privoxy? Has anyone following this tread used it?

-- 
Kam Salisbury
http://kamsalisbury.com
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