<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Mike Pfaiffer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:high.res.mike@gmail.com">high.res.mike@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> BTW, why are you blocking Amazon S3?</div><div class="im">
<br>
</div> It was appearing as an ad server when chromium was loading an unrelated<br>
web page. Besides I don't order anything from Amazon. I thought the<br>
domain was actually <a href="http://amazonaws.com" target="_blank">amazonaws.com</a> and unrelated to Amazon...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>S3 is Amazon's "disk in the cloud" offering. Many people store static assets on S3 and use it as a cheap CDN. There might be some ads there, but there's more likely to be someone storing the images on their blog there, too. It would be like blocking everything under <a href="http://google.com">google.com</a> because you don't like seeing adsense content network ads.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I probably should have mentioned this in my original response, but fscking around with the hosts file is generally a bad idea. If you want to block ads, run the adblock plugin.</div><div><br></div><div>
Sean</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div>-- <br>Sean Walberg <<a href="mailto:sean@ertw.com">sean@ertw.com</a>> <a href="http://ertw.com/">http://ertw.com/</a><br>