Monday February 04, 2002
Block most web ads by saving a simple file to your hard drive? If you run Windows, you probably have a 'Hosts' file — basically a pre-ISP DNS directory. And if you put in the addresses of websites that serve ads, setting their destination to null, your web browser will ignore them. Why didn't I think of that?
For a good primer on what a 'Hosts' file is a…
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