[johnbryanpeters]

My current un-favorite is date.com, which is displaying pop-over ads which obscure content... :mumble:

 

[mirage542]

mine is the morgage ones with the dancing pig and snake that say pick ur state

 

[Wumpus]

I don't see any ads.

 

[JRB]

As irritated as I may seem from the world, I don't have any ads on RM that bother me. I used to, but I have risen above that.

 

[Wumpus]

As irritated as I may seem from the world, I don't have any ads on RM that bother me. I used to, but I have risen above that.

So you going to come up and ride the road?

 

[Barbaton]

Partypoker.com


it throws all the timing off in Pingu Slap!

 

[Wumpus]

Best thing I ever downloaded for ads --> Hosts file

 

[genpowell71]

Saturn Bingo rules for the worst

 

[McGRP01]

Lane Bryant.

 

[Mike B.]

I don't see ads either, must be because I've blocked them at the firewall.

 

[JRB]

So you going to come up and ride the road?

I guess I could. I will call in a short while. I want to go to Oshman's, so maybe so.

 

[ThePriceSeliger]

I dont have any problems with ads... ever since SP2 i dont have any problems

 

[DHS]

SP2 is the DEVIL!
i had to re-install all the OS's at work to SP1. don't work well with out accounting software.
also lots of other progs don't work. so its the DEVIL i say!

 

[dhtahoe]

All of them... nothing but spam. Funny now that I post less often I don't get nearly as much spy-ware.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Best thing I ever downloaded for ads --> Hosts file

The trouble with the HOSTS is that it's huge and any unresolved name requires a sequential scan of the file. Therefore it's slooow, especially for those of us running on creaky old iron.

J

 

[Wumpus]

The trouble with the HOSTS is that it's huge and any unresolved name requires a sequential scan of the file. Therefore it's slooow, especially for those of us running on creaky old iron.

J

How is it slower than going and fetching the real ads? I always had a lag when I loaded a page as the ads loaded then the page would load. Now, the page loads a lot quicker.



(I really don't know so any info is always good.)

 

[johnbryanpeters]

How is it slower than going and fetching the real ads? I always had a lag when I loaded a page as the ads loaded then the page would load. Now, the page loads a lot quicker.



(I really don't know so any info is always good.)

Let's say the web page contains an ad served by wombat.com. Your computer needs to translate the DNS name into an IP address (a number like 12.28.134.6) to use it. The HOSTS file tricks this by giving it a fake number.

Normally your computer sends a message out asking for the address associated with the name wombat.com, a fairly quick request/response process.

With the HOSTS file, which has more than 31,000 entries, your computer needs to root through all those entries, which, for my old memory starved box takes a lot of time. While it's happening, I can see svchost.exe pegging the CPU.

 

[MtnbikeMike]

I hate them all. I got on RM one day, popups galore. I was thinking 'wtf is going on, did RM totally sell out?', then I realized I wasn't signed in