On Thursday 15 May 2008 02:50:48 am Magnus Therning wrote: > 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:
Abusing /etc/hosts can occasionally cause unexpected behavior. Both Konq and Iceweasel support Filterset.G; that's a tad more ideal and regularly updated. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html
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