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urine off is a great product!! it kills the smell of cat pee. I've purchased it. now I know I can buy it from a link from greasespot cafe, even better.

other ads I need to see are for pond supplies. I'll keep my eyes open.

oh paw, cafepress for cups and bumper stickers. I'd buy a sticker for sure. mark them up, this is a good cause. I bought a mug from them a few years ago and the quality is excellent.

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Are you using Firefox?

When I'm using IE, I see them, but not under Firefox.

I think it's my Extensions/AddOns.

No. I have modified my HOSTS file to force the mapping of certain URLs to my local computer. (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)

For example, from Google, Inc., the following URLs are mapped to "home:"

127.0.0.1  adwords.google.com #[Gmail ads]
127.0.0.1  pagead.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1  pagead2.googlesyndication.com #[Google AdWords]
127.0.0.1  adservices.google.com
127.0.0.1  ssl.google-analytics.com #[urchinTracker]
127.0.0.1  www.google-analytics.com #[Google Analytics]
127.0.0.1  imageads.googleadservices.com #[Ewido.TrackingCookie.Googleadservices]
127.0.0.1  imageads1.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads2.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads3.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads4.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads5.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads6.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads7.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads8.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  imageads9.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1  www.googleadservices.com

Doing that for ad sites eliminates a HUGE amount of banner ads, popups, pop-unders, browser hijack attempts, 3rd party cookies, and so on.

I've done this for the past few years and it really works well.

There are a number of places that maintain replacement "hosts" files (along with instructions to replace)...

the one that I use as my base file (I modify it further) can be found via this page: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Sorry that it makes it so I can't see the Google ads on this page, but, of course, I'm not going to lower my computers' security in order to be able to see them on GS.

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By the way, the reason I found out about this was that a piece of malware modified my "hosts" file to redirect all requests going to security related sites, such as Symantec, to a porno site. Made it so I couldn't update my antivirus definitions or find instructions on how to remove the worm.

I had to become intimately familiar with the "hosts" file after that point.

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Mark,

Using an ad blocking extension works much better. I use Firefox with the Adblock Plus extension. Works great and it allows me to exempt a web site with a click of a button. I've come across several web sites that content was being blocked by it that I needed and it was easy to enable getting it.

Blacklisting IPs has its drawbacks. For one thing, your browser is still trying to connect to 127.0.0.1 to retrieve content for a web page instead of just ignoring it. Another is that just because a certain IP address serves up adds, it doesn't necessarily mean that is all it serves up. In other words, blacklisting is like using a sledgehammer. Sometimes it's the tool you need, but generally a regular hammer would do much better.

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Mark,

Using an ad blocking extension works much better. I use Firefox with the Adblock Plus extension. Works great and it allows me to exempt a web site with a click of a button. I've come across several web sites that content was being blocked by it that I needed and it was easy to enable getting it.

Blacklisting IPs has its drawbacks. For one thing, your browser is still trying to connect to 127.0.0.1 to retrieve content for a web page instead of just ignoring it. Another is that just because a certain IP address serves up adds, it doesn't necessarily mean that is all it serves up. In other words, blacklisting is like using a sledgehammer. Sometimes it's the tool you need, but generally a regular hammer would do much better.

Hey, all I know is that I don't have popups anymore! (Even on famous popup/popunder sites like Drudge). And, I have never run into problems accessing any URL I've tried to go to.

And it does speed up access...as 127.0.0.1.

Having said that, if you have an open source adblock that works with Opera and/or IE, I'm more than willing to try it. The ones I've tried in the past (mind you, a couple of years ago before I learned about 'blacklisting', i.e., modifying the hosts file) had very limited success. They may have improved.

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Pop-up blocking is pretty standard these days. IE7 and Firefox do it by default without any add-on. Same for Opera.

Not sure about ad blocking in IE or Opera, but the one for Firefox works great. A nice feature is that it updates itself as new ad urls are found.

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