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Software / Blocking web ads

« on: December 04, 2004, 01:51:59 PM »

Thanks for the info.

What I'm concerned about are pop-ups that are NOT ads, but part of the page your are working with.
Example; 'enlarge image' links that popup a larger image, forums that use a popup window to login or answer a thread etc.

Also, the images in Amandtech's reviews I believe were blocked by these hosts files:

http://www.######.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2080

Just to use this for example.  I don't have the hosts file installed in my box now, so it does display all the images.  It was really noticeable when you clicked on the 'print this article' button.

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Software / Blocking web ads

« on: October 30, 2003, 07:36:49 AM »

I did a search for this and nothing came up (in case someone asks).
I have the article titled "Blocking Web Ads" and since I have never done this before, is all I have to do is do a copy/paste to the 'hosts' file the addresses in that article WITHOUT doing ANYTHING else??
In other words all the 127.0.0.1 entries are copied WITHOUT adding ANYTHING else to the file??

The text in the orginal file gives me the impression that you have to type in additional info on each line as follows:

# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

Anyone please explain before I do this.