On 13 Oct 2011 at 13:10, Ray Arachelian wrote:
Which is why it's better to let your browser
plugins do the work for
you. Blocking *.doubleclick.net/* from within AdBlock+ is trivial to
constantly doing nslookup for whatever the hosts are and adding them
to /etc/hosts.
I do use AdBlock+ on Firefox. Opera's ad blocking isn't quite as
good (I use Opera on older systems); for example, AdBlock for Opera
doesn't block google ads.
Ad blocker plugins are fine if you're using a browser, but how about,
say, wget or any non-browser application that references web pages?
--Chuck