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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on April 27, 2004, 08:21:23 pm

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: an0n on April 27, 2004, 08:21:23 pm

Find a file called "HOSTS" somewhere in your Windows directory.

Add the following to it: 127.0.0.1 ads.gamespy.com

In XP this file can be found in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

In other OS's, you're on your goddamn own.

This piece of edutainment was brought to you by an0n.
an0n: Circumventing stupidity since 1985.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Taristin on April 27, 2004, 08:46:25 pm

Didn't do anything.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: an0n on April 27, 2004, 08:47:24 pm

Try adding: 127.0.0.1 localhost

...to the very beginning of the file.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Knight Templar on April 27, 2004, 08:48:25 pm

That sounds like a lot more work than I'm willing to do. Why don't we just not have them instead!

PS - I'm having Waffles for dinner. **** you guys. :p

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: an0n on April 27, 2004, 08:50:00 pm

We wouldn't have them, but the admins are too scared my fool-proof methods involving IP's and PHP and DVD's and XTC will be discovered and GS will boot them.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: phreak on April 27, 2004, 09:00:47 pm

works

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: ZylonBane on April 27, 2004, 09:13:00 pm

Mucking around in the Windows directory is not something that Dummies should ever attempt.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 27, 2004, 09:14:46 pm

Or you can just DL/install Spybot search and destroy and say "Let there be immunization", and there will be immunization, and you will see that it is good.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Thorn on April 27, 2004, 09:16:01 pm

or you could just ignore them...

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Langy on April 27, 2004, 09:23:27 pm

Quote

PS - I'm having Waffles for dinner. **** you guys

What a coincidence! That's what I had for dinner!

Oh, and uh... yeah, banners suck!

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Rictor on April 27, 2004, 10:10:23 pm

Ignore 'em. You can't really be on the Net in this day and age if you're the type to be bothered by ads.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Xelion on April 27, 2004, 11:01:53 pm

GS is going a tad bit far :nod:, forums should never have ads :hopping: its destracting... and it p***** me off :mad:, kind of reminds me about IGN, crappy site that is. I click a link it takes me to an add page and then asks me whether I want to continue, its not a f****** live and die situation I just wana see the damn page.

Thanks an0n for that fix ;)

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Bobboau on April 27, 2004, 11:15:19 pm

an0n's thing works, you'll have to turn off IE for it to take effect.
thanks.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: kode on April 28, 2004, 12:41:35 am

what banners?

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Ace on April 28, 2004, 12:46:13 am

Edit: Works for IE as well as Opera.

Yet another blow against the imperialist pig-dogs! :)

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Kamikaze on April 28, 2004, 01:11:45 am

With a Mozilla browser right click on the image and choose to block.

You can also block flash: http://www.makeitwork.be/mozilla/AdBlocking.htm

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: JarC on April 28, 2004, 01:30:06 am

or use MyIE2, has a kind of an advert/popup killer built-in, or if you're comfortable with html and regexp, get a pre-parser to filter the html OTF (something like the Proxomitron)

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Rictor on April 28, 2004, 01:33:35 am

Kamikaze: you mean Firefox, right? I don't see the option to "block this image" or whatever.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Tiara on April 28, 2004, 01:51:39 am

This is old :p Already did this :) But thx anyway.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Thorn on April 28, 2004, 01:58:59 am

Quote

Originally posted by Rictor
Kamikaze: you mean Firefox, right? I don't see the option to "block this image" or whatever.

Its right above Properties
should say "Block images from adcontent.gamespy...etc..."

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Nico on April 28, 2004, 02:57:58 am

not in mozilla 1.4 at least, I confirm.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 28, 2004, 03:10:42 am

I can't say I ever look above the thread title anyway...

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: kode on April 28, 2004, 05:42:47 am

I repeat: what banners? I can't see any.

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: IceFire on April 28, 2004, 08:07:23 am

Top of the page...right side...new.  Doesn't bother me...as long as there are no pop-ups (I have blocking on anyways).

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: vyper on April 28, 2004, 08:21:12 am

:lol: an0n's trick means the page keeps looping on a load section, trying to get the banner, or so it appears here. Doesn't stop the site working, since everything else loads anyway, but.... tee hee...

Title: Killing The Banners: For Dummies
Post by: an0n on April 28, 2004, 09:31:07 am

Quote

Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Or you can just DL/install Spybot search and destroy and say "Let there be immunization", and there will be immunization, and you will see that it is good.

Doesn't work for GS ads.

I had to add it to the stuff S&D dumped in there.