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Title: Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: snellgrove on July 05, 2006, 22:56:51 PM

http://everythingisnt.com/hosts

yeehaw

Obviously I havent tried it, as I dont know where the hosts type file on linux is :lol: but I thought twere a nice find :)

Title: Re:Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on July 05, 2006, 23:23:08 PM

probably called HOSTS :) as well I think its originally a linux thing I think :)

Title: Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: bear on July 06, 2006, 00:00:02 AM

I just added the list to my hosts file in windows and will find out how well it works.

Title: Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: PuNk on July 06, 2006, 00:03:00 AM

Quote from: bearI just added the list to my hosts file in windows and will find out how well it works.

Can you explain how? I could really do with this, was considering switching to firefox (which i dont like) just to use its Adblocker.

Title: Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: maximusotter on July 06, 2006, 00:08:14 AM

Meh, thats how sites make their money. I have "nuke anything" installed for annoying stuff, and "flashblock" as flash adverts are very distracting.

Title: Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: bear on July 06, 2006, 00:14:22 AM

Quote from: PuNk
Quote from: bearI just added the list to my hosts file in windows and will find out how well it works.

Can you explain how? I could really do with this, was considering switching to firefox (which i dont like) just to use its Adblocker.

just go to WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

and edit the file (copy the contet into your hosts file, well no need to have "127.0.0.1 localhost" twice though).

Title: Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: maximusotter on July 06, 2006, 00:18:05 AM

Its /etc/hosts.deny, btw, but I dont know what kind of formatting it likes.

Title: Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: bear on July 06, 2006, 00:25:30 AM

sorry, it was in nix, well the editing should be the same :)

Title: Re:Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: snellgrove on July 06, 2006, 17:44:11 PM

I do use Adblock Plus on Firefox here, but I thought it was a nice find for the IE / Opera / all-else users out there :) who do not have such extensions for their browsers.

Title: Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: Norphy on July 06, 2006, 18:17:07 PM

IE, perhaps. The current version of Opera has a content blocker though.

Title: Hostsfile that should kill 99% of adverts
Post by: skidzilla on July 06, 2006, 18:18:42 PM

Quote from: maximusotterIts /etc/hosts.deny, btw, but I dont know what kind of formatting it likes.

Its exactly the same. :)

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