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| Thread ID: 101932 | 2009-08-01 03:55:00 | What do you use to block Internet ads? | jwil1 (65) | PC World Chat |
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| 797141 | 2009-08-01 12:07:00 | I am curious to know why some people do not block Internet ads... | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 797142 | 2009-08-01 12:34:00 | The only thing with doing it with the hosts file, is the bigger it gets / the more entries you put in it, the slower you'll get, when you go to different sites | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 797143 | 2009-08-01 16:23:00 | hosts | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 797144 | 2009-08-01 16:29:00 | The only thing with doing it with the hosts file, is the bigger it gets / the more entries you put in it, the slower you'll get, when you go to different sites It has to be very large before you really notice much difference. I downloaded years ago a file that was about 14KB and it made very little difference but now I just check the cookies and add any new ones. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 797145 | 2009-08-01 23:12:00 | Safari Ad Block.:thumbs: The ones who don't block ads seem to be the same ones who read their :spam mail.. |
Sue (33) | ||
| 797146 | 2009-08-02 01:12:00 | I use AdblockPlus with Firefox & am happy with it. But I'm intrigued to see some people use other apps - noscript & FlashBlock - with it as well. Interested to know what difference those extras make? Or is is that they're used for different browsers? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 797147 | 2009-08-02 01:53:00 | Erayd formally known as Bletch wrote a script for no script to specifically block adds on this site because they became a real problem last year | gary67 (56) | ||
| 797148 | 2009-08-02 03:37:00 | I use all 3. But there is no option for that in your poll.. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 797149 | 2009-08-02 06:09:00 | The only thing with doing it with the hosts file, is the bigger it gets / the more entries you put in it, the slower you'll get, when you go to different sites In all the years I've used a hosts file to handle ads/adware/malware etc, I've never experienced a comparably slower browsing experience due to performance. Resolving an ad or similar useless resource request to 127.0.0.1 far outweighs any perceivable performance hit if it even exists. |
sal (67) | ||
| 797150 | 2009-08-02 06:47:00 | In all the years I've used a hosts file to handle ads/adware/malware etc, I've never experienced a comparably slower browsing experience due to performance. Resolving an ad or similar useless resource request to 127.0.0.1 far outweighs any perceivable performance hit if it even exists.That's the same experience I've had. Apart from that though... I've got a fast adsl connection so I probably wouldn't notice any difference anyway. |
Greg (193) | ||
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