MVPS HOSTS

[Retired]

After years of keeping my MVPS HOSTS faithfully updated, I've finally
decided to give it up. It's bad enough that it blocks sponsored Google
links, but now is blocking ************.
While tinyurl's are frowned on somewhat, there's still a lot of us that use
it. Specifically, it's blocking click.linksynergy.com which is apparently
included in the tinyurl search routine.
As long as the file is, I'm not going to spend time editing it every time a
new one comes out.

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-- I'm retired. I was tired yesterday. I'm tired again today --

[siljaline]

Retired wrote:
> After years of keeping my MVPS HOSTS faithfully updated, I've finally
> decided to give it up. It's bad enough that it blocks sponsored Google
> links, but now is blocking ************.
> While tinyurl's are frowned on somewhat, there's still a lot of us that use
> it. Specifically, it's blocking click.linksynergy.com which is apparently
> included in the tinyurl search routine.
> As long as the file is, I'm not going to spend time editing it every time a
> new one comes out.

************ is *not* blocked. Are you combining other Host files with
MVPS ?

Google ads should be blocked - if you can't live with that, it's time for you
to find another method of ad blocking.

Google sponsored links have been blocked for ages and you're only making
this observation now ?

Silj


--
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

[Retired]

"siljaline" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in news:j4cbqo$sr7$1@dont-email.me:

> Retired wrote:
>> After years of keeping my MVPS HOSTS faithfully updated, I've finally
>> decided to give it up. It's bad enough that it blocks sponsored
>> Google
>
>> links, but now is blocking ************.
>> While tinyurl's are frowned on somewhat, there's still a lot of us
> that use
>> it. Specifically, it's blocking click.linksynergy.com which is
> apparently
>> included in the tinyurl search routine.
>> As long as the file is, I'm not going to spend time editing it every
> time a
>> new one comes out.
>
> ************ is *not* blocked. Are you combining other Host files with
> MVPS ?

Nope. And today I notice that the same tinyurl links that didn't work
yesterday are working today. The links were both going to items at
TigerDirect.com. Maybe it was something *they* were doing. But
click.linksynergy.com was getting in there some way or another. I also
noted that yesterday Malwarebytes was blocking all kinds of stuff. And
today nothing at all.

> Google ads should be blocked - if you can't live with that, it's time
> for you to find another method of ad blocking.
>
> Google sponsored links have been blocked for ages and you're only
> making this observation now ?

Nope. I've lived with that one for a long time. Usually if you look down
in the search results you can find the same site not sponsored.

I'm over my hissy fit for now. I went ahead and updated the HOSTS file.
:-)
I use HostsMan so it's easy to turn off once in a while but I rarely do.

And if it wasn't for you I'd never know when the new ones are out, so
maybe I should be one of the ones that says "Thanks, siljaline".

Now get off my case. I was having a bad day! :-)

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-- I'm retired. I was tired yesterday. I'm tired again today --

[siljaline]

Retired wrote:
<snip>

Glad you're over your hissy-fit

The Hosts file and it's contents are static for a given release period.
But you know that. Although the behaviour of the contents of the file
against an ever-changing ad environment can be variable.
Since I don't write the file I can't really "go there" ... as it were.

MBAM and what it blocks is completely separate from the Hosts file.
But you know that - what MBAM blocks from one update to another
is *not* static. The two used together perhaps with Spyware Blaster make
and excellent combination.

You can edit all or none of Google's sponsored ads from the file,
if you like - assuming there are some being blocked that you do not
want blocked.

Silj


--
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_