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TMK Stuff => Site Discussion => Topic started by: WarpRattler on October 05, 2004, 10:33:54 PM
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I swear, it's like every other page I view, it comes up as a full-page ad that I have to refresh to get by. Also, aren't those things only supposed to come up a certain amount of times during a session? Or did that change? Whatever happened, I really wish they'd stop with the extreme amount of ads. Oh well, at least it's not like they're showing those Army ads or those stupid Flash pop-ups that you can't even close by pressing the X. Now THOSE are annoying. Well, I should be going back to chatting now...*slaps Deezer with a large trout for no reason in particular*
("o0o") My metroid thinks you are stupid. People who
....v...v disagree with metroids often get sucked dry.<•>_<•>
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They don't bother me much at all
Egg Power
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donotcare95: Tell me something I don't know.
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I have Windows XP with pop-up blocker turned on for classicgaming.com. I also have, but rarely need to use the Yahoo! Companion Toolbar with a pop-up blocker and a pop-up blocker in my Norton Internet Security.
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Although the pop-up blocker is not always turned on in my Norton, it blocks most ads.
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Pop-up blockers don't block Gamespy interstitials since they aren't pop-ups...
This is a quick way to block any ad server:
Open the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
(This file might be somewhere else depending which version of Windows you have or different OSes like Mac and Linux, but it should be there somewhere)
Add these lines at the bottom and save the file:
127.0.0.1 ads.gamespyid.com
127.0.0.1 ads.gamespy.com
You might also have to restart your browser or computer.
Edited by - MEGAߥTE on 10/11/2004 8:42:58 PM
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Mine is C:\Windows\hosts
Works great, and I didn't have to reboot. ^_^
Edited by - Deezer on 10/11/2004 9:37:07 PM
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The adds don't bother me, its the Ad-Ware that bothers me...
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I tried that so far so good... I thought that doing this required editing the registry...
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Seeing as I use Mac OS X and Safari instead of IE, I don't know any sort of techniques for removing those horrid ads.
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MacOS X has the hosts file too. hosts has nothing to do with IE.
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I can't find that file. If it helps any, I'm on WinME.
("o0o") My metroid thinks you are stupid. People who
....v...v disagree with metroids often get sucked dry.
STOP MISSPELLING MY NAME IN THE CHATROOM! IT''S NOT o_O! IT''S o_0! OH-UNDERSCORE-ZERO!
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Ah, I see.
After getting help from a friend who knew more about the Mac's Terminal than I did, I was able to add those IPs in. They work great.
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donotcare95, maybe run a search for hosts under C:\Windows\ ?
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I did that, Deezer. I couldn't find it. Stupid WinME.
("o0o") My metroid thinks you are stupid. People who
....v...v disagree with metroids often get sucked dry.
STOP MISSPELLING MY NAME IN THE CHATROOM! IT''S NOT o_O! IT''S o_0! OH-UNDERSCORE-ZERO!
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Bump. ;)
“Using the Semicolon can sometimes be a tricky proposition from a syntactical perspective!â€
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Huh. I never get full page ads or annoying popups, but the small ads are still there. They don't bother me usually...
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Edited by - Bird Person on 5/10/2005 4:34:26 PM
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If you have Firefox, I highly recommend
Adblock.