{"id":96,"date":"2009-11-05T19:20:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T03:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-11-05T19:20:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T03:20:48","slug":"annoying-advertisement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/05\/annoying-advertisement\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoying advertisement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes ads are way too invasive&#8230; the one provided by this domain, for example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:plain\">http.tidaltv.com<\/pre>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind ads&#8230; (most of the time at least)&#8230; but when they have audio going on and I&#8217;m listening to songs I like, then it&#8217;s get really annoying.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent that, I did the following:<\/p>\n<p>Edit the file <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>&lt;WINDOWS&gt;system32driversetchosts<\/strong><\/span> and include the following lines:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:plain\">127.0.0.1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0clickfuse.com\n127.0.0.1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0l2.zedo.com\n127.0.0.1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0pubads.l2.doubleclick.net\n127.0.0.1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0www.ringtonematcher.com\n127.0.0.1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0www.mediataskmaster.com\n127.0.0.1\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0http.tidaltv.com<\/pre>\n<p>You may reboot your computer for the changes to take effect, after saving the file. Or you can simple close your browsers.<\/p>\n<p>By doing this, all domain names will resolve to the local IP address of your own computer (that in most cases will not be running a web server). If that the case, you don&#8217;t lose time nor bandwidth with ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes ads are way too invasive&#8230; the one provided by this domain, for example: http.tidaltv.com I don&#8217;t mind ads&#8230; (most of the time at least)&#8230; but when they have audio going on and I&#8217;m listening to songs I like, then it&#8217;s get really annoying. To prevent that, I did the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/05\/annoying-advertisement\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,40,179],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advertisement","tag-annoyng","tag-hosts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}