Apple’s newest iPod lets consumers take music, photos and now video with them. The latest edition is generating much fanfare in the media, but as MarketWatch Weekend’s Bambi Francisco reports, it may be for the wrong reasons.
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Dear MDN,
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I enjoy my daily read of your site and I appreciate your need of the advertisaing dollar, but I must say the ads that also include audio REALLY ANNOY me. If you could avoid these it would make me one happier customer
LandLord,
We have a no audio ads policy, but sometimes they are mistakenly not marked as such by 3rd party ad networks. Please tell us more (please use email – click “MacDailyNews Webmaster” above) about the ad (content, size, location on the page), so that we can track it down and suspend it.
Thank you in advance.
Do what I did, edit your host config file and add the offending URL according to these instructions
http://dreamlight.com/insights/bugs/Apple/lookupd.html
This is mine and I haven’t got a annoying problem since
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1localhost
255.255.255.255broadcasthost
::1 localhost
0.0.0.0 ads.adsonar.com
0.0.0.0 js.adsonar.com
0.0.0.0 z1.adserver.com
0.0.0.0 media.fastclick.net
MDN word: “Further” like no more further problems from “fastclick”
This story is supposed to air Sunday at 8:30 am here in Miami, but because of the hurricane coverage, I doubt we’ll see it. Could someone post it…?
Sweet, Mac Dude, thank you! Excellent link. Sorry MDN, to have to block your annoyances. I won’t tell your advertisers I did it though.
Oops, I just did!
… Or you could do what I’ve done… if you use Safari. Get the free SafariBlock and just add offending hostnames to it. It also blocks flash ads if you choose. You can use handy wildcards to cover a range of hostnames etc. As the software’s author notes, SafariBlock is similar to the popular Firefox extension AdBlock. It installs as a preference pane in Safari, and you use a contextual menu item to add items.
http://braden.machacking.net/
Cheers,
Leland
Adblocking and flashprevention are the only reasons I use firefox. Ff has some major flaws compared to Safari though.
Thanks Leland, a good little App
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The audio ads are indeed too much. They have motivated me to install SafariBlock as well.
How do you block flash ads with SafariBlock?
Flash has its own contextual menu that appears.