Re: [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

Dhruva Lokegaonkar <dhruva-22dYR/[email protected]> Tue, 22 May 2018 12:29:36 +0530

Newsgroups	gmane.user-groups.linux.mumbai
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Running something like a Pi-Hole Locally would mitigate that concern.

Also, Is injecting traffic like that even legal. Or is this something
that's in their Terms of Servicef


On 05/22/2018 12:15 PM, Karan K wrote:
> I use the extension ublock:origin -
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ You can
> install this on android firefox as well. Works very nicely. Although I'm
> still skeptical of the whole privacy issues of having an add-on that can
> literally get all your browsing history, so ymmv :)
>
> Regards,
> Karan.
>
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Rony Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Will try it out.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rony.
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2018, 9:30 AM Chirag Wazir <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As Richard says, the problem is probably due to MTNL's irritating habit
>> of
>>> injecting Ads. I have never seen them do a full page one - i.e. usually I
>>> saw small popups - but I have had the URLs blocked for a couple of years
>>> now, so I suppose they have "progressed".
>>>
>>> Regarding Rony's question "Is there any setting in my router that can
>>> reduce this?".
>>> Yes. You need to block some URLs/IPs on your router. My list is as
>> follows:
>>>  203.94.227.141:3000
>>>  203.94.227.141:80
>>>  203.94.227.140:80
>>>  203.94.243.40:80
>>>  adphonso.com:80
>>>  phozeca.com:80
>>> Where the setting will be depends on your router - on my D-Link it's
>>> "Advanced Setup" => "URL Filter"
>>>
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>>> http://chirag.freeshell.org
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