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Posted by Arbiter on Oct-01-2004 08:15:

Sick of annoying ad banners?

Well, you can avoid seeing the vast majority of ad banners by following the instructions here:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

I'm very satisfied with this change. I don't have to wait for banners to load (burstnet ads for some reason always slowed me down), I don't have to see those annoying flashing ads, unscrupulous internet advertisers can no longer track my browsing habits using cookies and my chances of being infected by spyware or malware are greatly reduced.

I highly recommend it.

Posted by {b.s.e.} on Oct-01-2004 08:48:

i'm sick of everything. do you have a program for that?

Posted by Arbiter on Oct-01-2004 08:57:

quote:
Originally posted by {b.s.e.}
i'm sick of everything. do you have a program for that?

No, but you really only have to download the one file and put it in the proper folder on your computer. The rest of the instuctions aren't really necessary unless you're having a problem.

Posted by cviper on Oct-01-2004 15:02:

I've used that "trick" for about a year now; it does work quite well.

And whenever you come across an unblocked banner, you can just add the server to your hosts file (assuming there's nothing else on that server you want to view).

Posted by LinX on Oct-01-2004 15:14:

quote:
Originally posted by {b.s.e.}
i'm sick of everything. do you have a program for that?

lol

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Oct-01-2004 15:14:

Meh, Mozilla Firefox + AdBlock = not a single ad in sight.

Posted by loconet on Oct-01-2004 15:16:

Even better .. on Firefox/mozilla , Right click on Image -> "Block Images from ..." . All ad images usually come from the same domain.

Posted by DiMethGuy on Oct-01-2004 16:16:

quote:
Originally posted by {b.s.e.}
i'm sick of everything. do you have a program for that?

lol amen

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Oct-01-2004 16:41:

quote:
Originally posted by {b.s.e.}
i'm sick of everything. do you have a program for that?

Posted by Tranc3 on Oct-01-2004 18:50:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Meh, Mozilla Firefox + AdBlock = not a single ad in sight.

Plus the flash binder