[PLUG] Blocking Banner Ads Cheaply

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Fri Dec 5 19:43:01 UTC 2003


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Please do not top post.  http://learn.to/quote

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 03:08:10PM -0800, J Black wrote:
> I googled for "list of ad servers" and got a bunch of useful-looking
> matches.  The first one, http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/, looks quite
> informative, tho written for Windows users.  In Linux, the hosts file is
> /etc/hosts.

Abusing the hosts file in this manner may have serious implications on
any OS (namely, network weirdness, and if you run a webserver on your
system, a *lot* of 404's coming from localhost).

Solve it the right way by using something with some intelligence and
save yourself some headaches down the line.

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