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longwayhome -> RE: Hey, it's all working again .... (12/3/2016 5:36:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1
The main problem with Ad-Block, like all of these blockers, it doesn't stop your browser going to the site and downloading the advert.
All they do is stop it displaying on your screen.
Your best bet is to add it to your hosts file (on a PC) rather than use an Ad-Blocker.
You'll find it in Windows/System32/Drivers/etc/hosts on 32-bit and 64-bit windows systems.
It doesn't have an extension; edit it with notepad or any simple text editor.
Add the following: 127.0.0.1 www.bing.com
Add more advertising sites you also want to block such as google-analytics.com or adrotator.se each one on a separate line.
You can have as many as you like - thousands if you want, one on each line.
Save the file and re-boot.
What this does is stop your machine from even getting to the site to download the advert.
So you won't ever see it again and your loading times will improve marginally because they aren't downloading adverts to display.
How does it work? It's actually quite simple.
You see, when something like a browser or a website wants to access a site (eg, www.myadvertsite.com), it uses something to convert the name to an IP address that the internet things understand.
It's called the Universal Resource Locator (URL).
Without going into technical blindery, windows sees that and goes hunting for it.
What the hosts file does is to tell windows where certain sites are without looking for them.
The 127.0.0.1 bit says it's right here on this machine (local) so don't go looking.
The name is what it was looking for from the browser/website request.
So what happens?
Windows says 'load me 127.0.0.1' and of course it's never there. lol.
So at best you'll get a message saying 'cannot access myadvertsite.com' and doesn't bother.
It's far better than waiting for the advert (and whatever else it might bring with it) and just stopping it showing.
If any advert has anything nasty attached to it, stopping the display won't stop the damage it does.
Putting the website into the hosts file will stop access completely.
Here's just a few I have in my hosts file on every machine I have -
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.co.uk
127.0.0.1 main.exoclick.com
127.0.0.1 www.medleyads.com
127.0.0.1 adrotator.se
127.0.0.1 britmethod.com
127.0.0.1 kaboomit.com
127.0.0.1 www.s-static.ak.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 bid.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ib.adnxs.com
127.0.0.1 a.tribalfusion.com
127.0.0.1 d.adroll.com
127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net
That's one of the ways that SpyBot Search and Destroy works, but I hadn't thought about adding to the long SpyBot list myself because I just assumed that anything I added would be written over by SpyBot whenever it updated.
Maybe I can try adding it before the SpyBot entries. Still I only really want to stop the pop-in add - not completely restrict my access to Bing (poor excuse for a search engine that it is).
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