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Jos
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Block Google Ads?
Posted on 08/25/05 at 06:46:13 GMT |
I saw a comment on the Google Ads Poll about blocking Google Ads using etc/hosts file. The comment was by Andy. Although I would probably never want to block them because they amuse me, I am curious. I wonder, how is this done?
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Re: Block Google Ads?
Posted on 08/25/05 at 22:32:36 GMT |
Jos wrote:
I saw a comment on the Google Ads Poll about blocking Google Ads using etc/hosts file. The comment was by Andy. Although I would probably never want to block them because they amuse me, I am curious. I wonder, how is this done?
If you're using Windows then the hosts file is in a different dir, but if you open up your existing hosts file, you'll see a line
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127.0.0.1 localhost
What the hosts file does is resolve domain names. 127.0.0.1 is your local ip. so this is some of what my hosts file looks like.
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127.0.0.1 servedby.advertising.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ar.atwola.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 atdmt.com
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 spe.atdmt.com
127.0.0.1 atdmt.com
127.0.0.1 mediaplex.com
127.0.0.1 www.fededloan.com
127.0.0.1 www.fededloans.com
Which works fine unless I'm running the apache webserver on my computer. 
Normally the ip of a domain is looked up at your ISP's dns server. You can also put in *actual* ip's which could shave a few nano seconds off the time it takes for a site to load. No dns resolution via the remote DNS server. Since it's usually a DNS server on your own network, the lookups are pretty fast anyway.
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Andy Alkaline
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Re: Block Google Ads?
Posted on 08/26/05 at 04:34:02 GMT |
Jos wrote:
I saw a comment on the Google Ads Poll about blocking Google Ads using etc/hosts file. The comment was by Andy. Although I would probably never want to block them because they amuse me, I am curious. I wonder, how is this done?
At least you aren't worried about costing them profits. Refer to the top ten most commented articles here - "Microsoft Acquiring Google" if you are interested, I did some stock comparisons, kind of interesting and surprising as well.
Comment 39 I believe.
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Re: Block Google Ads?
Posted on 08/26/05 at 05:05:38 GMT |
That's a neat trick I didn't know about. Thanks Andy Alkaline.
I rename my hosts file to hosts.sam when I'm online so my server won't hook up my domains to my own computer. Then I rename it to hosts again when I'm using my server. I use a bat file to rename it, that I found on the internet. I suppose it could be rewritten to do a 3 way rename to provide for these extra filtering tricks.
Thanks for the info.
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Re: Block Google Ads?
Posted on 08/26/05 at 05:35:53 GMT |
Jos wrote:
That's a neat trick I didn't know about. Thanks Andy Alkaline.
I rename my hosts file to hosts.sam when I'm online so my server won't hook up my domains to my own computer. Then I rename it to hosts again when I'm using my server. I use a bat file to rename it, that I found on the internet. I suppose it could be rewritten to do a 3 way rename to provide for these extra filtering tricks.
Thanks for the info.
I don't quite follow you. Your server shouldn't be reading your hosts file. Maybe I'm tired. Nah, that couldn't be. Sure it could.
One instance of where your server might resolve dns names from you is if you're running a dns caching server. That's only as far as I know though. But even with a dns server you should be able to configure it so that won't happen.
You're most welcome by the way. I think I learned about that trick from spybot search and destroy.
http://www.safer-networking.org/
One of its features is that it will prefill in a ton of known ad/spy/mal-ware domain names and write to your hosts file, putting a 127.0.0.1 in front of all those known domains.
It also has a feature that will lock your hosts file. If one does get some nasty little malware, the ware will write your hosts file, thus redirecting you. You could go to http://www.google.com/ but it will resolve to an IP of some entirely different site.
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Re: Block Google Ads?
Posted on 08/26/05 at 17:13:17 GMT |
Wow that is no good malware to do things like that to my hosts file.
The reason my hosts file is different is that I set it up to resolve my domain names so I can run my sites the same way as they are on the internet, like www.sitelibrary.net .
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Re: Block Google Ads?
Posted on 08/26/05 at 22:48:47 GMT |
Okay, I think I know what you mean now.
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Re: Block Google Ads?
Posted on 08/27/05 at 05:29:53 GMT |
Mine just says:
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#127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.bantychicken.com
127.0.0.2 www.sitelibrary.net
127.0.0.2 www.open-id.com
127.0.0.2 www.bantychick.com
127.0.0.2 www.wideopensources.com
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