[thelist] blocking ads with HOSTS

[Tony Crockford]

At 16:25 on Wednesday, 21 Apr 2004, Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:

> 127.0.0.1  us.a1.yimg.com
> 127.0.0.1  rd.yahoo.com
>
> Doesn't seem to work much. Is it just one of those things you can't
> block? The HOSTS file hand in hand with the FireFox Flash blocker is
> a nice way to browse, and I'm happy with it - just wondering if I can
> extend my banner blocking abilities somehow.

I just added those to my hosts file and it works fine.

Have you:

added them to the right hosts file?
restarted your browser / cleared the cache?

hth

Tony