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The only trouble I've ever had with MSE is that if you edit your hosts file to block the Facebook "like" button, MSE will pop up a warning and delete the www.fa

• kijin 15y ago
  I've had this happen, too. But after the first time I told MSE that it was a false positive, it never bothered me again about the hosts file. Good doggy.
• bwarp 15y ago
  That's MSE thinking that something has modified the hosts file and resetting it. I'd go for an ad blocker rather than a hosts file hack. Adblock plus works fine on Firefox and Chrome. There are TPL subscriptions for IE that block everything (google around for them).
  • tadfisher 15y ago
    Privoxy works everywhere a proxy will, and can use Adblock filter lists.
    • barrkel 15y ago
      Adblock (or rather, AdBlockPlus) can hide elements within web pages. Killing images and the like is only the beginning of a decent adblocker.