OK, I know there is a way to block certain sites from your computer but how do I do it?

I'm wanting to block somethingawful.com because as a lot of you probably know, they installed a filter against people remote linking their images and the filter is a giant picture of an oozing cum. I was browsing some old threads on TA where people linked images from somethingawful.com before they installed this and all of these are now appearing as it. I've seen this several times, I don't want to end up seeing it again as it's truly fucking horrible.

Cheers for any help.

Aloep

Well:
1) Dont look at old threads
2) go to tools/internet option/security/restricited sites and then add yr sites u want stopped, not sure if this will work, but worth a go

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This happens 'cos the REFERER in the HTTP_HEADER is set so they know it's a remote link. If you want to see the correct image you could try copy and paste the URL into the browser address bar. This doesn't set the REFERER.

Use the method from Fly to restrict all access to the site.

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Originally posted by aloep OK, I know there is a way to block certain sites from your computer but how do I do it?

in your windows folder there is a file called hosts (without any extensions, hosts.sam is NOT it)

ie refers to it before requesting ips from the actual dns service, which makes it easier to locate servers if they are on the list.

a trick is that u can put any ip for all host names

so all u need to do is insert either of the following

127.0.0.1 somethingawful.com

or

0.0.0.0 somethingawful.com

the first way is preferable because 0.0.0.0 *may* freeze your system (it depends on which version of windows u have)

after u have done it everything on that site will be thought to be on your local machine and thus no page will be displayed

it is also useful in banning most pop-ups (of course if u know urls of adservers )

note it works with ie only. it's not gonna work with other browsers

if that file is not there, create it (make sure it has NO extension)and insert this string before anything else (each entry should be kept on an individual line)

127.0.0.1 localhost

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Last edited by Noisician on Nov-07-2002 at 02:00