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A Sun News popup has started appearing in Thunderbird. I want rid of it!
Clicking on it only makes it go away. It goes away by itself in several seconds.
It appears top center with a stylized "S" on the left end, the icon for The NY Sun.
I have not found any help for how to remove it.
I am not sure of the best forum for this question.
Thank you for the reply WPeckham.
I don't understand that you said in the text that "it was NOT www.nysun.com" but that is the name you added to /etc/hosts.
/etc/hosts already has a 127.0.0.1 entry set to localhost.
Can you please tell me what that accomplishes?
ron
Last edited by JavaMeister; 04-17-2023 at 01:51 PM.
Thank you for the reply WPeckham.
I don't understand that you said in the text that "it was NOT www.nysun.com" but that is the name you added to /etc/hosts.
/etc/hosts already has a 127.0.0.1 entry set to localhost.
Can you please tell me what that accomplishes?
ron
Because i am not now running Thunderbird and have reinstalled since then so i no longer have or need that hosts redirect. www.nysun.com is the web site, but I think the add page was slightly different. I put the redirect in hosts to redirect the add page to 127.0.0.1.
What it does is redirect the calls to load the add from nysun to your local machine on the loopback port, which will (of course) not serve the add so it will never come up.
PS. I would take frankbell's advice and check for addons.
Those popups were occurring a few times a day. None have appeared since I added the "127.0.0.1 www.nysun.com" line to /etc/hosts. I am calling it solved. Thank you for your help.
Those popups were occurring a few times a day. None have appeared since I added the "127.0.0.1 www.nysun.com" line to /etc/hosts. I am calling it solved. Thank you for your help.
What this hosts line amounts to is a redirect to the bit bucket, or black hole. Alternatively, 0.0.0.0 can be used, and either one for any site you wish no no connection to, such as googleadservices.com and google-analytics.com. If you do this, some sites will insist you are using an "ad blocker", and insist you disable it to use the site.
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Alternatively, 0.0.0.0 can be used, and either one for any site you wish no no connection to, such as googleadservices.com and google-analytics.com. If you do this, some sites will insist you are using an "ad blocker", and insist you disable it to use the site.
