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Naked Power Organ

Registered: May 2002
Location:

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.

Oct-01-2004 08:15

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{b.s.e.}
savant garde

Registered: Oct 2001
Location: The Source

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

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Oct-01-2004 08:48 Canada

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Naked Power Organ

Registered: May 2002
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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.

Oct-01-2004 08:57

cviper
Lurking on TA

Registered: Sep 2001
Location: NGC-6543 TekniskFysik - levande lik!

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).

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Oct-01-2004 15:02 Sweden