Friday, 29 January 2016

Re: Filtering webpages

In message <mpro.o1oojm0082tl406gk.atdotcodotuk@dotcodotukat.co.uk>
Vince M Hudd <atdotcodotuk@dotcodotukat.co.uk> wrote:

>At the domain level, you could add entries to your hosts file for sources
>you want blocked, along the lines of:
>
>127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
>
>This will effectively stop websites you visit on that computer *with any
>browser* from loading anything from that domain.
>
>If you can do something similar in your router, you will achieve the same
>result for any computer on your network.

Thanks for that tip. I realize that the idea of a webpage being hosted
at a particular URL, with pictures, styles, javascript, ... etc being loaded
in from elsewhere is not necessarily realistic. It is often quite hard
to see from the source html text exactly what is happening.
--
Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com)
Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/

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