{"id":785,"date":"2015-07-30T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T02:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2015-07-30T19:02:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T02:02:35","slug":"microsoft-edge-how-to-block-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/microsoft-edge-how-to-block-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge &#8211; How to Block Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on <a href=\"http:\/\/redd.it\/3f8jnr\">Reddit<\/a>, but I figured it deserved an entry to the blog as well. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to say Adblock here, but since it isn&#8217;t a specific way to get adblock on the browser yet. I am here to offer an additional solution that I&#8217;m finding to be suitable for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>It dawned on me that the hosts file could be used to block unwanted sites from displaying content by setting hosts to 0.0.0.0 in the hosts file at C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc . It turns out I&#8217;m not alone in this. This site here provides an updated text file that can replace your hosts file.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winhelp2002.mvps.org\/hosts.htm\">http:\/\/winhelp2002.mvps.org\/hosts.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not affiliated with them in any way, more of just sharing my journey to block ads &#8211; a crucial reason I wasn&#8217;t using Microsoft Edge.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the direct link to the txt file itself:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winhelp2002.mvps.org\/hosts.txt\">http:\/\/winhelp2002.mvps.org\/hosts.txt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, hope this helps.<\/p>\n<p>Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on Reddit, but I figured it deserved an entry to the blog as well. Here it is: I wanted to say Adblock here, but since it isn&#8217;t a specific way to get adblock on the browser yet. I am here to offer an additional solution that I&#8217;m finding to be suitable for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[92,91,57,81],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-techno","tag-browser","tag-edge","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}