In Windows, open C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in notepad and add a line that says 127.0.0.1ads.doubleclick.net then restart your computer and links to that server will go straight to nirvana =)
2011/6/29 Bob Sullivan <[email protected]>: > Bruce, > Oh you gotta give us more details on that! > Regards, Bob S. > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 11-06-27 1:09 PM, Tim Bray wrote: >>> >>> I just clicked on a PESO hosted on photo.net. It popped up an >>> interstitial ad that I had to view or dismiss before I could see the >>> picture. [...] >> >> I'm no fan of photo.net, but I've never seen these popups and I see very few >> of the banner ads, so I've been a bit puzzled about all the fuss. >> >> So while looking at Dave Brooks' latest shots I investigated to see what was >> happening -- of course! Years ago I configured my DSL router (pfSense) to >> return "host not found" replies to all domain-name lookups for >> doubleclick.net, which happens to cover the majority of ads at photo.net. >> So no popups, and empty whitespace where the banner ads usually go for all >> the computers in the house. DNS proxies are a wonderful thing. ;-) >> >> -bmw >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
