help with adblock and google ads

[Myles Braithwaite]

What about just putting this in your dns settings or /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 pagead1.googlesyndication.com pagead2.googlesyndication.com

We do something similar to know adware domains using bind9. It works.

But you might want to point it at a real web server.

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:41 PM, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:20:33PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
>> >
>> >Thank whoever for AdBlock, I honestly can't imagine the Web without it now.
>> >
>> >One thing I just found, kinda weird, is on this page:
>> >
>> >http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090316/alterman
>> >
>> >there is an animated Google ad to the right ('what's your nation-ality?')
>> >that I cannot seem to block. It's URL already shows up as one of my
>> >'exception rules', which is funny, because I have definitely _never_ set up
>> >any exception rules. I hate _all_ ads, no matter what, I don't want to see
>> >any.
>> >
>> >I cannot remove this exception from my adblock prefs, and I cannot add it to
>> >my blocked items.
>>
>> I am using AdBlock Plus, and I do not see the ad that you see.  YMMV.
>
> Okay, so it is possible to block it. Do you have a filter rule for:
>
> pagead2.googlesyndication.com
>
> I entered that as a new rule from the prefs dialogue (manually), still not
> blocked. And when I hover my mouse over the item in the blockable items list,
> the tooltip shows 'whitelisted', even though now I have deleted all 'exception
> rules'.
>
> Very frustrating.
>
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