Originally Posted by 777lover
A discussion about these ads on the UA board had this solution:
"These new ads are over the line. I didnt mind (and understood the need for) the ads on the side, could even live with the horizontal ads in between posts, but this is lame, simple solution, edit your hosts file to add the following lines:
127.0.0.1 a.tribalfusion.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
and (assuming your not running a web server on your machine) you will no longer get any ads (on the side or in the posts)"
How do you edit your hosts file and add these lines?
This works only on Windows (AFAIK). Go to the folder
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
(This is the default folder on Win XP. Could be different in your system. You can also just search for a file called "hosts").
There should be a file called "hosts" (no extension); if there isn't one, create it. Edit the file with notepad. Add those two lines. Restart your computer. Voila, all ads gone
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I also want to voice my opposition, and this makes me LESS likely to pay for an ad-free version.
The admins and Randy should keep in mind that FTers are an educated bunch who can learn to block the ads if needed. On the other hand, most of us would he happy to support FT. I think that directly asking to contribute by donating some money and/or clicking some discrete ads would be far more productive than this obnoxious advertisements.