[NTLUG:Discuss] Web page advertisers causing browser freeze

[Rev. wRy]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 13:09, Wayne Dahl wrote:
> Guys, this is REALLY ticking me off!  Click on a web page, watch the
> bottom status bar and see what advertisers the page is loading content
> from.  It seems that almost every time I click on a page, if it goes to
> media.fastclick.net or .com, the browser completely freezes up.  And
> this is not just from Mozilla, but from IE, from Netscape and Firefox. 
> It seems every browser I have hates that site and I wind up having to
> open up a terminal window to kill the browser.  This is REALLY annoying
> when you're actually trying to get to something!

You could always modify your hosts file to have media.fastclick.net and
media.fastclick.com point back to 127.0.0.1 .

> Thanks,
> Wayne

Ry