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I use hosts for ad blocking and for testing locally. I guess I get a bit of junk in my logs but I've never really seen it as a problem. I keep meaning to see i

I use hosts for ad blocking and for testing locally. I guess I get a bit of junk in my logs but I've never really seen it as a problem. I keep meaning to see if I can serve up transparent swfs and html snippets automagically but I've never got around to it. You list two utilities for a single browser. If you use other browsers do you need other apps? The interesting thing about my hosts table is that I never bother carrying it across to a new computer and I only add domains to it when they actively irritate me. Even so, even companies like Google who are supposed to do non-intrusive "targeted" ads end up in there.

mindslight 12y ago
Yes, you need to install each extension on each browser / user account. It's basically just a one time setup hit, although one of the few I haven't automated away. I currently use chromium but without any ad blocker, for viewing documentation and the like (and the occasional incognito window, especially for Amazon which loves to spam you based on searches) I'm liking the idea of a per-machine setup, but I'd look into rewriting proxies (like privoxy) for that. I personally want every known ad/tracker/etc blocked without interaction - one person cannot hope to easily keep up with the machines are doing, but so far via crowdsourcing it seems like we can.