Hi, This is a very interesting post. I've downloaded the hosts.zip file but I find in the zipped folder only files that I would consider to be windows files only. In the private/etc folder, there's no equivalent host file that I could replace. The downloaded zipped file only has a unix executable file, and hosts.bat. The private/etc folder on my mac doesn't have hosts.bat file. but only hosts TextEdit.app Document. How can I accomplish what the instructions in the link you sent tell me to do?
I've been on the website from which one can download the file but there's no reference on it to the os mac operating system. Many thanks Andrew > On 30 Dec 2014, at 17:58, DD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If you have gotten tired of the ads in youtube and elsewhere here is a way to > block them. I have tried out this method for a number of days and in youtube > have not seen one ad. > > Because I do most things in terminal except for youtube I don't encounter ads > ormalicious websites so I have no experience there. Look here: > > https://giuliomac.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/how-to-block-ads/ > > This method works with any operating system which can connect with the > internet with any browser. There is a small bit there about how to do the > mac version. > > Basically there is a plain text file in /private/etc called "hosts". It > contains internet url locations for the system to ignore. I would advise > renaming the existing "hosts" file before substituting the new one. > > The version of it in the zip file at the above link contains many many such > sources known to cause popup ads such as those in youtube and else where. > Those known to be malicious websites are blocked also. > > The file is updated once a month when additional ad and malicious websites > become known. Using the examples in the file one can add sites one does not > want to appear, such as those a child should not visit. > > The result is that the ads and malicious websites disappear as far as you are > concerned. The internet works faster because those sites never enter into > the picture. Computer security is much improved because malicious websites > never see you on the net to plant nasties on your system. > > XB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
