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I have so many items in my hosts file that some sites refuse to load as a result. I'm constantly renaming that file to _hosts, using the web site, and then renaming it back to hosts to block other stuff that may come along. Not ideal but it suffices.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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This site : Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File[^] has tools, batch files, and powershell files to help manage the hosts file.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I'd never use an ad blocker. If a site is free, the ads are paying for it.
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You could consider one like ABP, the have a policy for acceptable ads[^] that I think is pretty reasonable.
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I just CBF. Ads don't bother me.
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I think ads have a place however there is a point where, for me,they make a site unreadable.
Flashing, moving brightly coloured ads on the left and right of a screen when I am trying to read text in the centre of the screen makes it impossible for me to take in any information. Quite literally I am unable to read some pages as I am unable to filter out the ads(particularly animated/video ads) down the sides of the pages.
It's a bit like how I am unable to concentrate in noisy offices or when people are loudly banging their cereal bowls in the office.
Perhaps it's just me but a simple couple of ads at the top and perhaps bottom of a page is plenty and not distracting.
So I use an ad blocker not to remove reasonable ad displays but to remove what, to exaggerate a little, I consider a form of visual abuse.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I don't look at the sort of pages that do those. The one thing I find is sometimes I click a social media site and it comes up insisting I won an iPhone, then I just close it and walk away
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Christian Graus wrote: I don't look at the sort of pages that do those.
If by social media you mean Facebook, I don't think I have opened a Facebook page for around a year.
Some business sites have adopted this spam you with adverts philosophy and unfortunately sometimes the articles are interesting but ruined by those ads.
However from what you are saying it sounds like you too have what I would call a reasonable expectation of how ads should be used.
I use an adblocker not to block those sites that have an ad at the top or bottom of the page, but to block those sites that are littered with ads.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I know what you mean - one of the "nice things" about uBlock is that it tells you how many ads it removed: For CP that would be low (I whitelist, but I'm guessing two or three per page) but when the counter gets over twenty there is no way I'll whitelist - I'll just go elsewhere, it's not as if they are the only site with the material. And a high number indicates a much higher interest in "me as advert consumer" than "them as information provider".
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah, I just don't read those sites  Once I see those ads, I know the page was written to encourage clicks, not to tell me something true
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A lot of those sites will also assume you're using an ad-blocker if you disable JavaScript. I just wish there were some way to make those sites not show up in search results.
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Marc Clifton wrote: We need a blocker for the "you're using an ad-blocker!"
Also for the popup "XYZ wants to send you notifications. Allow Block".
Almost every website you visit starts with this BS.
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I think the latest versions of the browsers allow you to disable this.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - 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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Any browser that doesn't allow you to disable notifications shouldn't be used.
Major security-risk stuff.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I may need to update my browsers then because I do not see it.
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Mozilla-based browsers have a "Dismiss the overlay" plug-in, which kills most of them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ABP has a filter list specifically to block that crap.
Known Adblock Plus subscriptions you want:
ABP filters
Specialization: Removes circumvention ads in Adblock Plus
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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@Forogar and I were having a chat about unintended programming features (ahem) due to things like:
Javascript's truthy:
"1" == 1 is true
Rexx:
" Hello " == "Hello" and 0.0 == 0 is not the same as 0 == 0.0
SQL:
Len("hello") = Len("hello ")
I'm just wondering what other family favourites there are out there.
(Edited because clearly I’ve lost track of what’s up and what’s down)
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 18-Apr-19 9:27am.
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Quote: Len("hello") = Len("hello ")
I was thinking how char vs. varchar are treated in SQL and messed around trying to get the LEN('HELLO ') != LEN('HELLO')
It's like an incorrect passing/appenidng/using VARCHAR(MAXLEN): if it passes through anything not of MAXLEN it's truncated (to 8K or, to 'HELLO').
Lesson learned, although I've not declared an actual char field [ >char(2) ] in years, and even that, only rarely.
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Of those, I use only SQL, and it's worse than that. (Transact-SQL at least.)
Remember that RTRIM and LTRIM remove only SPACEs, not all whitespace.
Basically, LEN (and RTRIM and LTRIM) work on bytes, so it does the same things with VARBINARY as it does with VARCHAR.
So I should not have been surprised when performing LEN on a VARBINARY ignores 0x32 at the end as well. 
modified 17-Apr-19 23:47pm.
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Also remember that T-SQL != SQL.
Just saying.
Having been working with SQL server for a couple of years now I have to say that the string handling have a lot more to wish for. 
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Well, in SQL:
Len('hello') = Len(' hello') is false (5 = 6).
This is my fave thing to do in a query window for a quick update:
IF (1=2)
BEGIN
BEGIN TRAN UPDATE [SomeTable] SET [someColumn] = 'someNewValue' WHERE [someID] = 0
ROLLBACK
COMMIT
END I still get intellisense within the BEING/END area and, should I accidentally press F5 or run the silly thing w/o selecting the code to run, no harm done.
Yeah, I know, gotta make sure I include the WHERE clause, and also BEGIN TRAN. I then select and run COMMIT.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Officially, I actively choose to not slap myself becuz of a (programming) language's nuance(s). 
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Re-read the OP. Chris didn't state he was going to slap his own head ....
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Y'all need to re-read my comment.
Never did imply nor explicitly express Chris did or would do that.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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