[aklug] Re: Speed up the internet

Also the title is misleading. If you 'blocked' 127.0.0.1 you'd probably
experience some untoward side-effects. What you are actually aiming to do is
redirect certain domains to 127.0.0.1, where they should fail, instead of
resolving them and sending requests to the real hosts FYI. B
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Robert Crowe <crowe.robert@gmail.com>wrote:

> After some experimenting (definitely being conservative with the 127.0.0.1
> is key-my credit union page wasn't loading right) I am trying bfilter. Two
> advantages I see with this is it's heuristic algorithm and it's ability to
> work on those pesky javascript generated ads. It passed the test of loading
> my credit union page nicely. B
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think I will try Robert's suggestion.
>>
>> I haven't tried adblock+, but what I've run into in the past with
>> adblock products is that with some websites, if you block the ads the
>> website doesn't load. I got tired of having to turn adblocking on & off
>> and got rid of it altogether.
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 23:18 -0700, James Tweet wrote:
>> > I just use Ad Block Plus plug-in for firefox. It works
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>> > se lines to /etc/hosts=0A127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net=0A127.0.0.1
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