How do you block banner ads using wildcards?

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Alien
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How do you block banner ads using wildcards?

Post by Alien »

I'm interested in blocking banner ads, using Windows, using wildcards.

Let's take doubleclick.net for example. Their ads server is ads.doubleclick.net. I'd like to just simply block ads.* or even *.doubleclick.net.

Is there a way to do this?
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Post by rmrucker »

Well, the Hosts file is the best way to BLOCK ads, and the Hosts file does NOT accept wildcards.

You can enter wildcards into the Restricted Zone (IE), but that does NOT block the ad, it simply prevents your computer from comunicating back to the ad's website -- if your Restricted Zone is set up correctly.

If you want to block ALL ads, see the Hosts file thread in the Security Forum.
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