Nothing new here, just a quick way to block google ads via a simple addition to your hostfile – Not that I am against Google ads (I use them myself on this blog), but sometimes they are put in annoying places and besides I respect that some people just don’t like advertising.
Here’s how to;
Fire up your Notepad (if you are running Vista,7 you MUST launch in administrator mode – rightclick notepad and select “run as administrator”), open the file “hosts” found here; c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc.
Now add these two lines to the bottom of the hosts file (there should be a tab between the numbers and text);
127.0.0.1 pagead.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
save and your done, no more google ads.