On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:14:15AM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote: > wtf? the ads are DISPLAYED in the browser. it's stupid to blackhole > dns and let requests time out rather than just not making the request in > the first place.
The way I do it with a local proxy means that said requests are stripped out of the HTML before reaching the browser. DNS based things will presumably fail immediately with /etc/hosts, rather than time out.
