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On most other industry news sites, my computer falls under immediate attack from malware and ads and worthless flash which covers the page. its Worst than even dirty sites!! Sounds start playing, a garbage instantly moves on top of the link I wished.
Thank you codeproject for having a clean page, not a shockwave flash trap of computer death.
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You can turn all that crap off. Stop being a victim and take proactive steps to protect yourself.
Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Exactly.
modified 1-May-16 15:03pm.
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What a FANTASTIC tip! Thanks so much! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Yeah, but now that the 35 sites he chose to go to before CP are more usable for him, he won't come back here.
We're out of cookies. We were relying on his subscription money.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's silly. CP is free. It doesn't cost anything. 
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CP TV costed something before it was put down 
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raddevus wrote: That's silly. CP is free. It doesn't cost anything.
Is that what they told you?
Well, don't come crying to me, when they send you the bill.
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Thank you, this is very good
Now one of the site will not show their 4 paragraph of content because I blocked their 10 mb of trash
Compare the 4 paragraph of industry news which requires those attack ads, to the wealth of quality content on sites like these which do not hijack my browser
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Mandeep8 wrote: Now one of the site will not show their 4 paragraph of content because I blocked their 10 mb of trash
If you try to walk out of the store with an item without paying, they will block you too. Hello?
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If all a store has is four paragraphs of content, then I don't need them, anyway.
Or are you saying that you enjoy clickbait news sites?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Do NOT do this.
This is stealing content without giving them the advertising revenue they need to survive as a business.
It is no different than torrenting CD.
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After your very usefull replies like or or even i guess you are a website programmer that spams the client with all that bullish. Get over it, nobody wants to be annoyed by stupid and vulnerable ads that trash your pc.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Member 12496887 wrote: Do NOT do this.
It is something I recommend for every PC.
Member 12496887 wrote: This is stealing content without giving them the advertising revenue they need to survive as a business.
Ah, so now I'm a thief?
Let us be clear; it is my PC, I pay for the electricity, I decide what the damn machine does. I never gave any website owner the permission to load third-party crap that they do not take responsibility for.
As for the revenue, that is not just coming from ads - and those tracking-cookies will not be around permanently either.
Member 12496887 wrote: It is no different than torrenting CD.
According to the law it is different.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You mean after the ads steal my bandwidth? F*ck you.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If this were tumbler, I would reblog this comment daily for a month. Alas, I can only upvote it once, sigh...
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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My bandwidth, my PC, my time. Ads steal all of them, plus the malware they often try to install. Keeping thieves out is very well in my rights.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Actually, using a hosts block is very different. If CNN really wants me to see an ad, then they need to host it on cnn.com.
If cnn.com is trying to display something from ShadyNetwork.cx, then they deserve to get their crap blocked. They made this bed, now they get to lie in it.
Of course, it will never happen because if CNN is hosting an ad on cnn.com and I get malware from it, then CNN is financially liable. The third party ad network not only reduces a small but not insignificant amount of bandwidth for them, but it shields them from legal liability when ads go wrong.
I don't know the statistics on the situation, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that ad networks were the #1 vector for malware infections.
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I use IE for browsing and I have Chrome set up to disable javascript and some sites I view in Chrome for this very reason, and it's almost always news sites or any other kind of content-focussed site. I've got quite good and looking at a url and predicting that I should open it in Chrome.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: I've got quite good and looking at a url and predicting that I should open it in Chrome.
I'm always bang-on at deciding when to open sites in chrome.
Never.
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I'm always bang-on at deciding when to open sites in IE.
Never.
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I'm always bang-on at deciding when to open sites in Edge.
When I need to download Chrome.
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