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"
Thanks. Will try it out.
Regards, Rony.
On Tue, May 22, 2018, 9:30 AM Chirag Wazir wazir@vsnl.com 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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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 gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks. Will try it out.
Regards, Rony.
On Tue, May 22, 2018, 9:30 AM Chirag Wazir wazir@vsnl.com 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"
-- Chirag Wazir http://chirag.freeshell.org -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
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 gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks. Will try it out.
Regards, Rony.
On Tue, May 22, 2018, 9:30 AM Chirag Wazir wazir@vsnl.com 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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