this will help you reduce the amount of advertisements you see while using Mozilla Firefox or any other browser that allows you to customize your browsing experience the way it does.
to install start>>run (windows xp) wordpad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (windows 98/me) wordpad c:\windows\hosts hosts file locations for other OSs copy/paste above site content to hosts file remove comments (lines begining with #) if you want sites to load /faster/ Edit>>Replace... Find: 127.0.0.1 Replace With: 0.0.0.0 add following line to top of file 127.0.0.1 localhost
if you do not have Mozilla Firefox already you are missing out
blocks text advertisements follow the "advanced setup" directions on site (this may cause false positives)
shows how-to use the above UserContent.css in other browsers/programs.
access to certian sites that open popups using flash/java affected (gallerys, etc). this option is enabled on default in newer versions of Firefox
download and install
import newest text file named in this format "yyyy-mm-dd.txt". follow the instructions
download and install. very useful if you read a lot of news.
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