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by foxyshadis1 on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 12:34:18 AM PDT

Many many ads are blocked by that file that aren't "adware" at all. If it were to only do that, it wouldn't be terribly useful given that the majority of sites use locally hosted ads or services like doubleclick, which is one of the most legit online advertising brokers, since they cleaned up some of their abuses years ago. (At least as far as I know they don't play the popup/popunder/javascript games anymore.) Same goes for more thorough services, like privoxy and antispyware services' ad-blocking. They try to block all ads, not just unethical ones, so it's not fair to assume that is something got blocked, the site must be funding spyware.

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