Re: Goodbye Google

In article <hhb7i.4566$u56.3564@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

I nuked Google as my default home page months ago. It was one
of the best online decisions I ever made. Using the internet is a
whole lot more productive and MUCH less irritating now.

But Google is just one relatively major symptom of the actual
problem: a concerted effort to convert the world's greatest tool
for two-way communication into another version of a one-way
Home Shopping Network. A concerted response to fight this
effort is very easy to implement: simply use one of the updated
databases to direct Doubleclick and the 1000 other spamster
sites into virtual oblivion, using a HOSTS or LMHOSTS file.

Here's my current list (feel free to copy/paste):

# This Hosts file has been altered to block ad servers.
# To restore the file just
# delete everything below the first entry or rename hosts.nbk
# to hosts and move it to the proper directory.
# Updated: scroll down for date stamp
# This is an ad blocking hosts file compiled by
# Mike Skallas (user245 (at) hotmail.com)
# Available at http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
# Copyright 1999-2007. Please do not redistribute, use above link.
# Free only for Residential/Non-Profit use.
# Just add '127.0.0.1 ADSERVER' to the bottom to continue the list.

No need to copy/paste this one. Go to:

# This MVPS HOSTS file is a free download from: #
# http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/ #


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