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ufo on Sept 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Search is only 18% Search

Also, it is possible to block 3rd party ads without touching the browser by going straight into the underlying IP routing tables.

rabbidrabbit on Sept 4, 2012 [–]

I use http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ as my hosts file, and it works great. It doesn't remove the placeholder for the ad, but it does stop it from downloading.

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