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Block those annoying "Intellitxt" ads

September 12th, 2007 by admin

So, you’ve seen the highly annoying Intellitxt ads, possibly on the UK Macworld site or elsewhere. Some sites let you turn them off but there’s no way to turn them off everywhere. I think I figured out how to stop them, at least on a Mac.

You’ll need to edit your /etc/hosts file and add this line:

  127.0.0.1 images.intellitxt.com

And then you’ll need to flush the lookupd cache with a

  sudo lookupd -flushcache

This prevents the javascript from loading from the intellitxt ads and thus, stops them from happening. Now, I know there are some ethical questions with blocking ads on web sites, since advertising (even on my own site) helps to pay the bills, etc. But, these ads are invasive and highly annoying (which is why I don’t have any here), so I think turning them off is something worth doing.

Update Some other options for blocking these ads can be found here.

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