On 10-08-07 03:43 PM, Sean Walberg wrote:
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Mike Pfaifferhigh.res.mike@gmail.comwrote:
BTW, why are you blocking Amazon S3?
It was appearing as an ad server when chromium was loading anunrelated web page. Besides I don't order anything from Amazon. I thought the domain was actually amazonaws.com and unrelated to Amazon...
S3 is Amazon's "disk in the cloud" offering. Many people store static assets on S3 and use it as a cheap CDN. There might be some ads there, but there's more likely to be someone storing the images on their blog there, too. It would be like blocking everything under google.com because you don't like seeing adsense content network ads.
Oh. That makes sense. I would guess since they would be loading external images from there blocking the original ad server would suffice.
I probably should have mentioned this in my original response, but fscking around with the hosts file is generally a bad idea. If you want to block ads, run the adblock plugin.
That's already included in Firefox isn't it? Then I already have that running. Unfortunately Firefox doesn't always block up popups. It will get about 80% of them but the additional 20% can be just as annoying. Then there are the banner ads too. The increase in speed by blocking just a few of their servers is noticeable.
Sean
Later Mike
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