Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Improve Your Hosts File for Christmas

Opera has a nice feature that one can selectively block advertising. When I do my daily once-over of web sites I visit, I do it in Opera, and then delete all private data. However, for whatever reason, ads from bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com regularly escape Opera's block content feature. However, this site violates my if it moves or makes noise, kill it policy. Adding this to the hosts file does the trick:

127.0.0.1 bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com
127.0.0.1 ace.advertising.com
127.0.0.1 advertising.com
127.0.0.1 www.advertising.com
127.0.0.1 advertising.vip.aol.com
127.0.0.1 advertising-vip.egslb.aol.com

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