Block/disable transition ads (Ad-brite)

Internet
Linux
Author

Vinh Nguyen

Published

February 28, 2011

Some sites I go to forces a full page ad once I'm visit a page for a few seconds. After a few additional seconds, I can click on "skip ad". I find this very annoying as the ad loads whenever I go to a new page within the website. I recently found out that these ads were called "full page ads" or "transition ads", ran by Ad-Brite. After some googling, I found this solution, which works. On the hosts file (on a Debian-based machine, /etc/hosts), add the following and things should be fixed immediately (restart on a Windows machine):

# [AdBrite, Inc]
127.0.0.1 adbrite.com #[Ewido.TrackingCookie.Adbrite]
127.0.0.1 1.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 2.adbrite.com #[SiteAdvisor.findwhatevernow.com]
127.0.0.1 3.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 4.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 ads.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 click.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 files.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 pic.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 vid.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 site.www.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 stats.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 www.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 www.avnads.com
127.0.0.1 www.britepic.com
127.0.0.1 1.httpads.com #[1adbrite.adbrite.com.akadns.net]
127.0.0.1 1.marketbanker.com
127.0.0.1 2.marketbanker.com
127.0.0.1 www.marketbanker.com