therning.org/ magnus » hosts file http://therning.org/magnus Incoherent mumblings Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:24:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hah! Some commercial sites have become useful again ;) http://therning.org/magnus/archives/154 http://therning.org/magnus/archives/154#comments Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:36:51 +0000 Magnus http://therning.org/magnus/archives/154 Episode 45 of the Security Now! podcast mentions a sneaky use of the hosts file—ad blocking. By listing well-known adsites in hosts and forcing them to resolve to 127.0.0.1 (or 0.0.0.0) the irritating ads aren’t displayed. A quick search on Google and I found a site offering a list of adsites specifically for this use.

So far it works really well, despite the list not seeing any updates since 2004. I’ve added one single entry in the two weeks that I’ve used it. Fairly good I think. I’ve also noticed that a few commercial websites, that I used to visit earlier but stopped hitting due to irritating popup windows, have started behaving better :-)

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