Document comments on Links passing through api.viglink.com? - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Document 27 April 2013 12:39PM

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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 27 April 2013 01:35:06PM *  4 points [-]

The Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox and Chrome will hide viglinks.

So will adding the line

0.0.0.0 api.viglink.com

to the /etc/hosts file according to at least a couple of writings on the web.

Comment author: Document 27 April 2013 02:00:05PM 1 point [-]

Thanks. Where should I look for that file, on a Windows XP or Vista PC or on an Android 4 tablet?

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 27 April 2013 02:28:19PM *  3 points [-]

You'll have probably found it by now, but for anyone else, on Windows it's typically under your Windows install directory in .\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. On Android it's under /system/etc/hosts, but you need root access to edit it.

Edit: just remembered, you'll probably need elevated access on Windows boxes as well, and this can get a bit tricky on Vista. Right-click on your notepad icon and select "run as administrator" (which you'll only have if your account has admin privileges). Then open the hosts file from the above path inside notepad and edit it there.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 27 April 2013 02:07:06PM *  1 point [-]

Am going to refer you to google since I do not run Windows or Android.

Unless what I have read is unusually misinformative, though, it is possible on both. (On Android you need access to root.)