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	TrueJournals	2009-05-23 , 21:25
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Originally Posted by munky261

I just did it, and wow....works great, the only site I visit regularly that I see ANY ads on is the animated weather radar page for my area on weather.com. Ary there any drawbacks to using this though, as you said it affects all apps that connect to the internet?

As long as nothing in the hosts file blocks you from getting to a website you need. The hosts file basically reroutes DNS names to IP addresses. So, if you had a line in your hosts file that looked like:

Code:

127.0.0.1 talk.maemo.org

This would tell your tablet to use the IP address 127.0.0.1 for talk.maemo.org, instead of querying your DNS server to find out what the IP address is. The way it blocks out advertisements is by redirecting any servers that host ads to 127.0.0.1, your tablet, which doesn't have any webserver, or ads.

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