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Dagobah Resident
.. and tracking cookies , and getting you personal data being sold to third parties etc etc etc.
Yesterday I was looking for such solution. What I have found is quite brilliant :D I should have got to that looooong time ago :D
This is simple and it works.
There is a website with updated hosts file.
Hosts file is a file on your local computer that translates domain names to IP adresses before your system makes a request to name server outside.
Another part of puzzle is an IP 127.0.0.1 which is a special IP that points to you machine . In other words this is your localhost , your machine.
Idea here is to direct domain names of advert hosts to you localhost :D :D :D
How it works ? So when you open a website with embedded adverts , your browser starts to download data from that website , but except for that , because of embedded code to external websites (adverts) , it also starts to download all that data from external servers - and we don't want that ,unless you like ads ;P and the fact that you are being tracked ;P.
For example, If you put such line to a hosts file:
127.0.0.1 googleadservices.com
when you go to a website that uses googleadservices.com for ads displaying , your browser will be unable to get to googleads because hosts file will point it to your localhost which is your machine , which does not have ads server :D brilliant isn't it ? :P
Ok, if my description is lame , go through better ones on a website with updated hosts file along with instructions.
Here are the links:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm <--- general info
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt <--- hosts file itself
Yesterday I was looking for such solution. What I have found is quite brilliant :D I should have got to that looooong time ago :D
This is simple and it works.
There is a website with updated hosts file.
Hosts file is a file on your local computer that translates domain names to IP adresses before your system makes a request to name server outside.
Another part of puzzle is an IP 127.0.0.1 which is a special IP that points to you machine . In other words this is your localhost , your machine.
Idea here is to direct domain names of advert hosts to you localhost :D :D :D
How it works ? So when you open a website with embedded adverts , your browser starts to download data from that website , but except for that , because of embedded code to external websites (adverts) , it also starts to download all that data from external servers - and we don't want that ,unless you like ads ;P and the fact that you are being tracked ;P.
For example, If you put such line to a hosts file:
127.0.0.1 googleadservices.com
when you go to a website that uses googleadservices.com for ads displaying , your browser will be unable to get to googleads because hosts file will point it to your localhost which is your machine , which does not have ads server :D brilliant isn't it ? :P
Ok, if my description is lame , go through better ones on a website with updated hosts file along with instructions.
Here are the links:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm <--- general info
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt <--- hosts file itself