I would like to disallow popups with iptables how can I accomplish that?

I would like to disallow popups with iptables how can I accomplish that?

[juanca]

hi everyone

 I would like to avoid popups with iptables what rules do I have to
implement?

Re: I would like to disallow popups with iptables how can I accomplish that?

[Mike Ely]

Use Mozilla, Safari, Konqueror, Galeon, or Opera instead of Internet 
Explorer :)

AFAIK, there's no good way to block popup ads using iptables.  You can 
make a blacklist and manually add each pop-up company to it using -s 
l33t.popupz.adserver.com -j DROP or something, but that seems pretty 
cumbersome, and you will still have the windows opening - just nothing 
will fill them.

Alternatively, you can use a filtering proxy such as squidGuard, but 
again you will still have the windows opening.  You're better off just 
using a browser whose developers aren't as hamstrung by marketing 
departments as IEs.

Mike

On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 04:50 PM, juanca wrote:

> hi everyone
>
>  I would like to avoid popups with iptables what rules do I have to
> implement?
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Re: I would like to disallow popups with iptables how can I accomplish that?

[Maciej Soltysiak]

>  I would like to avoid popups with iptables what rules do I have to
> implement?
Keep in mind that iptables is a packet filter, not a content filter,
thus acomplishing such a task would have to rely on ip addresses of what
you want to filter. eg. If you are using some kind of software which
connects to dedicated ad servers, you can just reject packets sent
to those IPs.
Remember that popups are initiated by the clients computer.