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Why I hate Ads[ Parent ] (none / 0) (#14)
by Anonymous User on Tue May 09, 2006 at 11:21:41 AM PDT

I was moved to block ads (I do it the old fashioned way by modifying my hosts file to redirect ad servers to local) because I was annoyed by the slow servers. It's bad enough they want to use my bandwidth to shove X10 pop-ups at me, but when the darned servers are so overloaded that I'm stuck waiting for them to respond before the page will display the content I want to read, I have to do something.
So, now whenever a page won't display and I see it's some ad server that has me stuck... I hit my shortcut to edit my hosts file and redirect them 127.0.0.1 and hit reload... and boom... up comes the page.
-- David Lari

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