On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm > browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks > like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like Google can > detect when you're using Adblock and serves you ads in <tables> > instead, making them harder to block. > > Can anyone suggest a fix? I only use Gmail for mailing lists nowadays, > and have moved my personal email to a server in an undisclosed > location in a remote island... ;-) > > I'd be happy with a solution that either blocks all Gmail ads or a > better method to browse the 14 mailing lists I'm currently subscribed > to, many of them high-volume. I'm beginning to miss Usenet. I use a rather large /etc/hosts file to block ads. The initial list of servers to block came from http://www.ssmedia.com/utilities/hosts/ then I've added the following to that: 0.0.0.0 a.casalemedia.com 0.0.0.0 a.tribalfusion.com 0.0.0.0 ads.eircom.net 0.0.0.0 adserver.securityfocus.com 0.0.0.0 adservices.google.com 0.0.0.0 adwords.google.com 0.0.0.0 b.casalemedia.com 0.0.0.0 c.casalemedia.com 0.0.0.0 dynamic.fmpub.net 0.0.0.0 imageads.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 imageads1.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 imageads2.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 imageads3.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 imageads4.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 imageads5.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 imageads6.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 imageads7.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 imageads8.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 imageads9.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 pagead.googlesyndication.com 0.0.0.0 pagead2.googlesyndication.com 0.0.0.0 show.googleadsenseagent.com 0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com 0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com 0.0.0.0 www.googleadservices.com 0.0.0.0 www.googlecaches.com /M
