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Junkbuster proxy/website content (was Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!)



on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:52:03AM -0500, Dave Sherohman (esper@sherohman.org) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:02:22AM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> > >>>>> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> > >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org> writes:
> >     Dave> Also, if you prefer not to use a transparent cache (I
> >     Dave> sometimes want to bypass squid), then you can install a
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> >     Karsten> True.  But with a transparent proxy on your gateway
> >     Karsten> there's *no* client or node configuration to be done to
> >     Karsten> utilize it -- for any host served by that gateway.
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, transparent gateways, due to their transparency,
> can't be bypassed, which makes them unsuitable for Dave C's
> preferences.  (Or mine.  As wonderful as junkbuster may be, it does
> occasionally get a little overzealous with sites that, say, put
> something other than ad banners into a /banner/ directory...)

This is a website bug.

I've known several sites which serve (or redirect) navigation elements or
*content* from ad servers.  InfoWorld did this for a time (they've since
found more creative ways to utterly fuck their website), more recently,
IDG has served content in frames, the content frame of which is
redirected through doubleclick.(net|com).

I simply inform such sites that they are not usable in present format,
and stop patronizing them.

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