From: Paul Stenquist
On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:03 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> From: Scott Loveless
>> On 3/16/09, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > On Mar 16, 2009, at 21:07, John Sessoms wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>>> > > It STILL won't bloody play, and I am NOT downloading a
>>>> special BBC flash
>>> > player.
>>>> > >
>>>> > >
>>> >
>>> > ??
>>> >
>>> > I just had to turn off my adblocker (Adblock PLUS in Firefox) -
>>> there's a
>>> > 30-second ad which plays in front of each story.
>> Strange. I have Adblock Plus turned on and it played just fine with
>> no ad preceding the news story. My wife, also running the latest
>> Firefox, doesn't use Adblock on her machine. The ad would play, but
>> not the story. Go figure.
>
> Figures. The advertising links to a predatory site listed in my
> hosts file.
>
The only ad I saw was a brief FedEx posting.
It's not the ad itself, it's the server that hosts the ad. I'm using a
hosts file to redirect known advertising servers, particularly adware
and malware servers.
The browser is being told to load an ad from "some.advertising.servers"
which is listed in my hosts file, and the hosts file tells the computer
the IP for that server 127.0.0.1
Now that the BBC flash clips are preceded by advertising from
adware/malware sites, I won't bother with them.
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