[RndTbl] Learning a little about /etc/hosts

[Sean Walberg]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Mike Pfaiffer <high.res.mike at gmail.com>wrote:

> > BTW, why are you blocking Amazon S3?
>
>         It was appearing as an ad server when chromium was loading an
> unrelated
> 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.

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.

Sean


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Sean Walberg <sean at ertw.com>    http://ertw.com/
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