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I often get this message when browsing various sites, and it's bloody irritating. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Sunday, 16 March 2003 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)

stop using the internet

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 16 March 2003 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

set up an entry in your hosts file pointing doubleclick.net to the loopback address (127.0.0.1) and the message should go away AND you won't have to look at all those doubleclick adverts.

(location of hosts file depends on operating system, /etc/hosts for unixy things, c:\windows\hosts for win98, think it's in c:\windows\system\drivers\etc\hosts for win2000...)

andy

― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer Chaki's answer, andy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 17 March 2003 00:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks Andy, but I'm a bit confused still. What do I write where in the hosts file?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 17 March 2003 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

here you go:

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.shtml

andy

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 17 March 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

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