2008/5/15 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 >
Thanks, this does seem to be a better method. Is there a way to avoid restarting the computer after adding new entries to /etc/hosts? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
