The entry I wrote back in 2004 about blocking Intellitxt-style context ads consistently gets the most search engine hits of any page on my website. Naturally, it’s a little out-of-date. Other providers have sprung up, and Intellitxt now uses a unique hostname for each site using the service. Because of that, using the hosts file to redirect certain domains doesn’t work so well anymore (you’d have to add an entry for every site whose ads you want to block). So here’s what I know now:

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