On 7/6/2012 8:05 PM, Feranija wrote:
> On 06/07/12 22:43, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> Snork yourself troll-boy. When you do a search on Google, you'll
>> frequently get sponsored links on the top and to the right of the
>> non-sponsored search result links. As far as I know, Ad blockers don't
>> do shit to suppress these links.
>
> Oh it works, it suppresses well. This is a "Hosts" file:
> http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
>
> It suppress all adds, on Google and elsewhere, and never fails. Upon
> copying this text file to the appropriate location, there are no more
> any adds on Google or any other search engine, web forums or similar.
>
> *nix systems users will simply copy the file to the /etc/hosts. Windows
> and Mac users depending of the OS version may need couple of simple
> instructions: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
>
> Before using it, there are several commented (#) addresses which when
> uncommented were troublesome for early versions of Firefox and few sites
> as Disney etc...
> Today it just works, just uncomment everything # 127.0... and enjoy adds
> free internet. No adds at all, nix, nada, nil, zero.

This sounds like an ad promising the world. I don't really need this old
school stuff. I haven't had to worry about ads popping up for several
years since the Chrome browser was released - it probably uses a host
file subscription service but I don't have to load anything. It's kind
of funny how people still have problems with this. I simply don't have
to think about popups anymore.

OTOH, host files don't do a thing about Google sponsored links. That's
the breaks.