not a bug or feature request, but i could think of a better place to put it
can anyone clever please make a firefox add-on that'll block the dailymail website? I keep unwittingly clicking on links to their site of shame
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 22:23, 6 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

How odd.
The Daily Mail only uses one IP address, according to DNS. Someone should tell /b/...
dig dailymail.co.uk ANY

; DiG 9.7.1-P2 dailymail.co.uk ANY
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23374
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dailymail.co.uk. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dailymail.co.uk. 13586 IN A 195.234.240.212
dailymail.co.uk. 14090 IN MX 20 cluster3a.eu.messagelabs.com.
dailymail.co.uk. 14090 IN MX 10 cluster3.eu.messagelabs.com.
dailymail.co.uk. 14151 IN NS ns2.vio.com.
dailymail.co.uk. 14151 IN NS ns0.associated.co.uk.
dailymail.co.uk. 14151 IN NS ns1.vio.com.

;; Query time: 29 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 31 10:21:38 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 187

Anyhoo, you can quite easily block it by adding the following line to your hosts file:

127.0.0.1 www.dailymail.co.uk dailymail.co.uk

Linux, MacOS, any other Unix based os - /etc/hosts
Windows - c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

You can test it like this:
ping dailymail.co.uk
PING dailymail.co.uk (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from falcore (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.011 ms
64 bytes from falcore (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.005 ms
^C
--- dailymail.co.uk ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.005/0.008/0.011/0.003 ms

Hey presto, any links to Daily Mail you click will now just time out.

Enjoy :-)
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 10:27, Reply)

^ what she said ^
If you still want to point and laugh at daily mail content (and without registering clicks and cash with their advertisers) there is also a dodgy wrapper site somewhere on the intertubes. Howd up a sec (or an hour) while I scour my memory.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 13:08, Reply)

Or use this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/kitten-block/
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 17:33, Reply)

Dodgy wrapper site
is at istyosty.com/
(WillI'mNot logs in twice a year, every year, Tue 10 May 2011, 22:37, Reply)

Edit your hosts file?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 9:52, Reply)

Edit your *what* ?!
Can you post some detailed instructions please?
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 11:30, Reply)