"Jackson" <jjacXkdins@Xcox.net> wrote in message
news:lf5f93pebn13c3ohba6t936ni0nkgm5q7l@4ax.com...
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>>On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 00:46:02 -0400, "siljaline" <siljaline@invalid.com>
>>wrote:
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>>>The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [07-08-07]
>>>http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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> My two cents: Every time I download a new HOSTS the video news clips
> on Fox NewsChannel.com refuse to play. I have to go back and install
> my old HOSTS (292 kb) from way back before the videos will run.
>
> I had X (remarked) out the "view.atdmt.com" line in the old file to
> get the videos to work. But just remarking out that line in the new
> HOSTS file does not permit the videos to play. They must have
> redirected another link in the string of pages that Fox News accesses
> to play the videos, and I don't have the patience to go thru the file
> testing one line at a time to see which needed file has been
> redirected this time. Fox forces you to watch an ad between each clip
> and if the ads are blocked so is the video clip. I guess someone
> hates ads so much that they don't mind missing a big part of the news
> just to avoid the ads.
>
> I appreciate the effort to make the internet a safer place, but this
> HOSTS file throws out the baby along with the bath water unless mature
> judgement is used in choosing what to let thru and what to block.

I think you'd do better to air your thoughts with the ones that create the
file instead of just complaining about it here.

cmsix

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> FWIW
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