Originally Posted by ugark
You must be new to adblocking, it puts the sites as 127.0.0.1 in the host file so theres never a reference as to "user X pulled data from us via wowinterface" .. since it never looks up the data (which is seen as being at 127.0.0.1 [which is localhost, don't want to confuse you] is the location it "requests" the data from) .. it never registers the "viewing", thus not using bandwidth, registering the view or giving anyone money for useless ads no one ever clicks.... but hey .. nice try!
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Just a re-quote to say that Ugark is right. This is how Ad-Block works. While it doesn't "modify the host file" it fools Firefox on the fly to think ads.domain.com is 127.0.0.1 and thus pull nothing.