[ale] Yahoo Groups: perils?

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On Wed February 27 2008, Charles Shapiro wrote: 
>  . You can find a copy just by goin' a googlin' on the
> Mighty Internet ?for "hosts files advertising block". Here's (
> http://everythingisnt.com/hosts ) one example. ?Naturally I don't use such
> a thing at work, where I'm _paid_ to deal with advertisements. ?And of
> course this won't really help if you choose to actually visit yahoo,
> aol.com, or some other evil site.

is it my imagination, or does adding those entries to your /etc/hosts file 
make the web pages appear MUCH quicker?? I seem to recall looking at the 
bottom of firefox, while waiting for the page to finish, noting those 
doubleclick entries waiting..

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