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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 27 Mar 2010 17:40 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote cite="mid:holaug$jde$1(a)tioat.net" type="cite"> <p>Every time I see an ad displayed in my browser, I find the link and ad it to my hosts file loopback so that I never again see an ad from that site.</p> </blockquote> <p>M. Jackson is right that this is a troublesome method of advertisement blocking. DNS is not the solution to WWW browsing problems. HTTP is. Use an advertisment-blocking HTTP proxy server; use <a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/web-browser-auto-proxy-configuration.html">a PAC script</a>, or use one of the many WWW browser plug-ins that do what you want to do.</p> </body> </html> |