Browser performance -- blocking adware in DNS

[Greg Rundlett]

On 10/3/05, Grant M. <gmongardi at napc.com> wrote:
>
> Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:
> > How does this solution affect websites that require the doubleclick
> > cookies or whatever to function properly? Some websites refuse to work
> > unless you have their ad provider's cookies.
>
> I suspect that you're correct in assuming the delay is caused by
> refusing cookies. The fix that Rich has proposed re-directs any request
> to the blocked domains to use the file specified as for DNS, which
> in-turn redirects those requests to localhost (which will likely return
> a 404 error for most requests).
>
> You can also do this by simply adding all of those domains to your
> /etc/hosts, or on Windows, C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. The
> entries should look like:
> 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> ad.doubleclick.net<http://ad.doubleclick.net>(the 'ad' machine name only)


There are a lot of 'Windows' resources out there (some good/ some bad?) that
try this approach
e.g. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Apparently the Windows-using webmasters and such get tired of the ad-nausea
that IE can inflict.
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