Re: Blocking Gmail ads

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

2008/5/15 Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org>:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
> <jordigh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting a little tired of Gmail serving me Matlab ads whenever I'm
>> browsing the Octave mailing lists. That's quite obnoxious. It looks
>> like it's tricky to block Google ads, since it looks like Google can
>> detect when you're using Adblock and serves you ads in <tables>
>> instead, making them harder to block.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a fix? I only use Gmail for mailing lists nowadays,
>> and have moved my personal email to a server in an undisclosed
>> location in a remote island... ;-)
>>
>> I'd be happy with a solution that either blocks all Gmail ads or a
>> better method to browse the 14 mailing lists I'm currently subscribed
>> to, many of them high-volume. I'm beginning to miss Usenet.
>
> I use a rather large /etc/hosts file to block ads.  The initial list of
> servers to block came from http://www.ssmedia.com/utilities/hosts/ then I've
> added the following to that:
>
> 0.0.0.0       a.casalemedia.com
> 0.0.0.0       a.tribalfusion.com
> 0.0.0.0       ads.eircom.net
> 0.0.0.0       adserver.securityfocus.com
> 0.0.0.0       adservices.google.com
> 0.0.0.0       adwords.google.com
> 0.0.0.0       b.casalemedia.com
> 0.0.0.0       c.casalemedia.com
> 0.0.0.0       dynamic.fmpub.net
> 0.0.0.0       imageads.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       imageads1.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       imageads2.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       imageads3.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       imageads4.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       imageads5.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       imageads6.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       imageads7.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       imageads8.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       imageads9.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       pagead.googlesyndication.com
> 0.0.0.0       pagead2.googlesyndication.com
> 0.0.0.0       show.googleadsenseagent.com
> 0.0.0.0       ssl.google-analytics.com
> 0.0.0.0       www.google-analytics.com
> 0.0.0.0       www.googleadservices.com
> 0.0.0.0       www.googlecaches.com
>
> /M
>

Thanks, this does seem to be a better method. Is there a way to avoid
restarting the computer after adding new entries to /etc/hosts?

Dotan Cohen

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