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psykovsky on May 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Privacy Badger

and that's why I have the following in my hosts file, together with thousands more.

127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com

I find it doesn't slow down browsers as much as adblock and similar extensions.

nacs on May 24, 2014 [–]

The host based approach won't block as well as Adblock (Edge/Plus) however as those plugins can block ads at the DOM element level.

There are many sites that host/proxy their ads on their own domain name but AB can block the <divs> and such by name or by other properties like size.

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