This is a brief README on how to use the HOSTS.AD-FU file. This file comprises a list of 199 of the most commonly used ad-servers on the Internet. Each entry maps an ad-server to the loop-back addres, 127.0.0.1. Thus, when your system does a DNS lookup to resolve an ad-server's name (in order to go to it and download advertisements, cookies, possibly spyware and so on), it is told by the hosts-file entry for the given ad-server that the ad-server is the local machine.
In short, the REAL ad-server is never consulted.
No ads are downloaded. No cookies collected. No spyware installed.
Your internet browsing experience is clean, fast and efficient. And, more importantly, it is free of the invasion of your privacy that ads (and their underlying software) respresent.
Privacy!
Your RIGHT!
FREEDOM!
HOW TO:
Easy: Simply append the contents of HOSTS.AD-FU to your existing hosts file.
The hardest part is finding the hosts-file (and persuading your systems administrator to give you the superuser rights needed to edit it.)
So here are a few pointers.
Unix/Linux:
/etc/hosts
Windows NT/2000:
/winnt/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
Windows 9x/ME:
/Windows/hosts.sam (If not already called just "hosts", rename the "hosts.sam file to "hosts" and edit it accordingly.)
That's about it!
Here are some links with more information about AD-FU: