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...so I've started using Opera 9.X lately. It's... wow, fast. Even the nightly Firefox builds are CHUGGING, on my machine with 2GB of ram. Windows, Linux, chugging regardless. And I don't run any plugins either except for Adblock with a handful of entries.

But that's not what this post is about. It's about the most powerful adblocking technique I've ever run across.

DNS-level ad blocking.

It's fairly simple to set up, even under Windows, and I'm starting to wonder why pre-packaged solutions to do this on a local machine aren't more common? Anyone else use this technique or think I should work on a self-contained package to do this under some common OS's?

Now I'm also wondering why some ISP's don't offer this, come to think of it. Not as a 'standard feature' but as an option to make available. Any thoughts on that idea?

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Date: 2007-09-10 04:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shabm.livejournal.com
The problem with DNS-level adblocking is that it's the level most likely to catch sites that you don't want blocked. You can see this in several 'family-centered' child-safe censoring packages.

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