Dude, you’re replying to a well-known troll... I actually had to check your posting history just to make sure you weren’t another of his sock-puppets. Just wanted to give you the heads-up.
You aren’t very creative, are you.
Well, one does have to read it pretty much all the way through in order to figure out that it’s not meant to be taken literally. That’s asking a lot of some mods.
That’s AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
NOBODY comes into a post, 70 or more posts deep, suddenly
Prove it.
That wasn’t me either.
What... not this?
clone, you haven't even disproven 1 of 20 points!
I disproved 5 of them and got bored. But here, I’ll cherry-pick one more.
HOSTS files will allow you to get to sites you like, via hardcoding your favs into a HOSTS file, FAR faster than DNS servers can by FAR (by saving the roundtrip inquiry time to a DNS server & back to you).
By FAR? A few milliseconds is BY FAR? And the OS has its own DNS cache locally (completely separate from the hosts file), so after doing the first lookup it won’t have to make this HORRIBLY “slow” several-millisecond roundtrip inquiry back to the DNS server again for quite some time.
In short, if the DNS queries are taking a noticeably long time, something is screwed up somewhere. It should never be a problem.
That wasn’t me. You’re just so much fun to troll that other people want to get in on the act.
Why the hell would I post AC and then sign my post? That’s completely retarded (oh wait... you ALWAYS post AC and sign your post... well, except when you post AC and DON’T sign your posts – guess that just proves yet again that you’re completely retarded).
ADBLOCK IS BLOCKABLE, BECAUSE IT IS DETECTABLE! Period.
(You can't DO THAT, to HOSTS files
Sure you could, if you wanted to.
adblock FAILED AT ARSTECHNICA
No, I think you mean that ArsTechnica FAILED AT BLOCKING adblock, because people forced them to stop. And that’s not even to say that the correct set of filters wouldn’t have blocked their ads without them being able to detect it, anyway.
I stated this, verbatim, this in that very same post you're avoiding:
You agreed with me, you stated I was right, and then you spouted a line of diarrhea about hosts.
Ahem: BULLSHIT - is there an adblock for ANDROID, for example?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=firefox+for+android, dumbass.
I've won, everytime, because not a SINGLE ONE OF YOU, has disproven any of the points in my HOSTS file pros list!
In APK trollspeak, disproven = not disproven and never = everytime. Same old same old, APK.
you FAIL, clone, badly
I fail at forcing you to act halfway intelligent, LOL, but then of course that’s impossible since you’re such a complete moron.
Anyway, anyone with half a whit of sense already knows who the “winner” and “loser” here is, troll. It’s been nice pwning you.
1.) Adblock blocks ads in only 1 browser family
The IETab Firefox addon allows viewing pages that only work in Internet Explorer, WITH adblock functionality, so your claim was false to begin with. But I only use one browser family anyway.
2.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc.
You’re repeating yourself. That was the same as your first point, which I already disproved and discredited.
3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do. THIS IS GOOD VS. SPAM MAIL or MAILS THAT BEAR MALICIOUS SCRIPT, or, THAT POINT TO MALICIOUS SCRIPT VIA URLS etc.
URLs open Firefox, and if your external e-mail reader is configured to load stuff from the web you’re “doing it wrong”. Point invalid.
4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will
On the rare occasion that this should be the case. Let me think... never. I’ve never suffered from this.
5.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs
But you’ll still get tracked when you run your APKBullShit(TM)HostsFileUpdaterAssUglyCruncher2011-ASCII-art-WHOOPDEFUCKINGDOO. ZOMG whatever will you do.
I’m bored, I’m stopping now. Bye APK.
QED. Thanks, AC. Come back soon.
So you replied to my post (advocating people learning how to the use of AdBlock Plus) by agreeing with me (“It's a GOOD idea to layer in the usage of BOTH browser addons for security like adblock”) and you think this is some big victory for you? Calling me right?
Maybe you are the one guilty of “skimming” (and stalking, certainly, which I’ve told you to stop at least several times previously and you’re treading on legal thin ice and you know it).
I never said in that post that the HOSTS file isn’t “superior to AdBlock &/or DNS”.
Nor did I say in that post that anyone using HOSTS files to block ads is a bleeding moron.
Your post was nothing more than an off-topic attempt to hijack the discussion and shrilly scream your personal theme music, which is about as worthwhile and entertaining as a vuvuzela.
But now I will say them:
AdBlock is vastly superior to hosts file blocking and anyone using HOSTS files to block ads is a bleeding moron.
This only covers email spam.
Refer to AC replies to my post for proof of this.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
