Browser performance -- blocking adware in DNS

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

Rich Braun wrote:

>I finally got fed up with seeing "waiting for ad.doubleclick.net" or the like
>at the bottom of my browser window:  I've noticed this month that a lot of the
>adware sites seem to have sluggish performance.  So even if you have one of
>those snazzy 6-megabit cable modem connections, you're still crawling along at
>256K DSL performance so much of the time.
>
>I did a little searching and came up with a solution that works for all the
>PCs in my household (be they Linux or Windows or whatever).  Thought I'd share
>it with y'all and invite comments; thought I got ideas for this via Google, I
>didn't find an exact match for what I wanted to accomplish, despite how widely
>useful this technique is.
>
>  
>
[snipped BIND info]

You can get a HOSTS file with most ad servers included at 
http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html. It's a drop-in replacement for the 
existing file, and
the author updates it at least once a quarter.

HTH.

Bill

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