Why not just use JunkBuster / Adblock / some other piece of software?
There’s lots of great ad blocking software out there that’s probably far more effective than just using this list. But there are also disadvantages to using these pieces of software, and sometimes people are unable to use them: • some methods produce false positives – eg, if you were blocking all hostnames beginning with “adservers”, you wouldn’t be able to get to this list by its usual URL (http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ – which, incidentally, is why you can also get to this list via http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/) • some methods require admin privileges – using this list as a proxy autoconfig script means that users of most browsers can use it even if they’re not administrators; installing programs and editing system files can often be restricted • some programs don’t support all operating systems or applications – eg, Adblock, a very useful tool, is only available for the Firefox browser. But in any case, I’m not saying this list is definitely going to be useful to you. It’s just here beca
