-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/08 04:50, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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 <http://0.0.0.0> a.casalemedia.com <http://a.casalemedia.com> > 0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0> a.tribalfusion.com [snip] > 0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0> www.googleadservices.com > <http://www.googleadservices.com> > 0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0> www.googlecaches.com > <http://www.googlecaches.com>
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