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Posted Nov 20, 2009 10:25 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: advertisers will love this by Los__D
Parent article: Reducing HTTP latency with SPDY

> Usually, what causes advertisements to suck the life out of the browsers, isn't bandwidth, but the adserver not answering, and the browser (for some ridiculous reason) deciding to wait for it.

That is why my /etc/hosts carries
0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
etc. with other adservers.

(not that google servers are the slowest to answer...)


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advertisers will love this

Posted Nov 25, 2009 14:31 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> That is why my /etc/hosts carries
> 0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
> 0.0.0.0 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
> etc. with other adservers.

Does that actually make a difference? I assumed adservers hide much better than that from AdBlock and others.

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