>>> On 12/07/2011 07:15 AM, Warp wrote:
>>>> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>>> I've never installed this or any similar system under the assumption
>>>>> that it is almost guaranteed not to work.
>>>>
>>>> Just try it. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
>>>
>>> Well, yes, there is that...
>>>
>>> (In a stunning turn of events, I actually have some work to do today.
>>> Yeah, I know. Imagine that...)
>>>
>>>> It doesn't need to do smart filtering. It only needs a blacklist. Said
>>>> list updates automatically.
>>>
>>> I don't get how that can work.
>>>
>>
>> Put the following line at the end of your hosts file
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net
>>
>> You'll be surprised to see how many ads disappear. One line. 50% of all
>> Internet ads gone. Not bad, eh?
>>
>
> It's about the biggest ads pusher and cross sites profiler you can find.
> But just that line is not quite enough, it also use those:
> ads1.doubleclick.net
> ads2.doubleclick.net
> ads3.doubleclick.net
> ads4.doubleclick.net
> ads5.doubleclick.net
> ads6.doubleclick.net
> ads7.doubleclick.net
> ads8.doubleclick.net
> ads9.doubleclick.net
>
> It also use the same with .com.
>
> Adblock filters it as *.doubleclick.*

I wasn't trying to be exhaustive ON PURPOSE.  Andrew seems to think that 
something is worthless unless it's 100% efficient.  I was just pointing 
out how trivial it is to do most of the work.

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