Suppressing Free Web Page Ads By Cyber Thief 1/2/99 Introduction The purpose of this article is to discuss some of the ways you can defeat paid advertising on free homepages. Please be aware that circumventing these ads could result in deletion of your account. Geocities To defeat Geocities ads, get on the advanced html editor and remove the ad code. I believe it starts with

at the bottom of the page. This creates the line break separating your page and the ad. This code is at the bottom of the page and is very recognizable. Just edit it out and you won't see the annoying "This page hosted by Geocities" line. To suppress the Geocities pop ups, get on the advanced editor and go to the last line of script in your html document. This should be the tag. Go down three spaces and type

tag and close it after the banner line. Your finished script should look like this... <noscript>

Pat yourself on the back because you have just rid your page of the Hypermart pop up. Tripod Tripod inserts their ad code directly under the tag. So, all you have to do is edit out the . You can still include the title and other things you would normally put under the tag. Just insert them beneath the tag and include an when you are finished. This will eliminate the Tripod ad pop ups. Conclusion All of the above mentioned tricks have been tried by myself and others. They all WORK. I will be trying new methods on different providers so there probably will be an update to this text. For more information write to cyberthief@deathsdoor.com. http://nettrash.com/users/cyberthief/