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Just had a great idea to share *NEVER MIND*

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kevinthenerd

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I just started thinking about how to block annoying ads, and I just had a great idea that I think should work in just about every version of Windows.

Create or edit your C:\WINDOWS\hosts file to direct requests intended for ad servers to some other machine (such as localhost) that won't give it a valid response. Here's part of my C:\WINDOWS\hosts file:

127.0.0.1 ads.mircx.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 banner.midifarm.com


(This works best if you're not running any web daemons on the current machine.)

Any other ad servers that you can think of?
 
Originally posted by: KeyserSoze
Who wants to tell him?


EDIT: Beat by iwearnosox



KeyserSoze
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DAMN! I was so proud of myself for discovering this on my own, and it's already been done!

Back to the drawing board!
 
Well, you could always be proud of yourself for coming up with this independent of others. Though, I wouldn't brag about it. 😀
 
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