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Tai_Lao
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December 23, 2011
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Anyone know of a way to block "l.addthiscdn.com" when accessing Adobe forums ? dave?

  • December 23, 2011
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Lately I've noticed my browser(s) hanging forever with a message in the status bar proclaiming something like "transferring data from l.addthiscdn.com". 

Does any one know of a trick to stop this?  Perhaps in GreaseMonkey, Stylish, Adblock or whatever?

Thanks in advance.

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Wo Tai Lao Le

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    i'd be shocked if it wasn't extremely similar, or even exactly like that. the hosts file is common to connecting to internet using tcp/ip. same across windows and unix (and therefore mac).

    good luck!

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    December 28, 2011
    Tai_Lao
    Tai_LaoAuthor
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    December 29, 2011

    Thanks, dave.  That will let me search for how to do it in Tiger, which is what I prefer because it's a much snappier cat on my machine than Leopard. 

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    Wo Tai Lao Le

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    December 30, 2011

    i'd be shocked if it wasn't extremely similar, or even exactly like that. the hosts file is common to connecting to internet using tcp/ip. same across windows and unix (and therefore mac).

    good luck!

    mytaxsite
    Inspiring
    December 23, 2011

    Does any one know of a trick to stop this?  Perhaps in GreaseMonkey, Stylish, Adblock or whatever?

    don't need to use any of that.  The simplest way is to enter this in your hosts file:

    127.0.0.1   l.addthiscdn.com

    The hosts file is in your windows folder.  In XP the location is at this link:

    <C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc>

    The file can be edited in any text editor.

    Good luck.

    Tai_Lao
    Tai_LaoAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 23, 2011

    JTANNA wrote:

    …The simplest way is to enter this in your hosts file:

    127.0.0.1   l.addthiscdn.com

    The hosts file is in your windows folder.  In XP the location is at this link:

    <C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc>…

    Thanks for your good faith attempt to help.  However, I don't do Windows.  None of that remotely applies here.

    Does anyone have any other suggestions?

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    Tai_Lao
    Tai_LaoAuthor
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    December 23, 2011

    Here's an example of a poor web site owner whose site is experiencing delays from l.addthis.com , a related deal:

    http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=37121

    so it's obviously something the web site administration has to imbed in their code—or something like that.

    Tai_Lao
    Tai_LaoAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 23, 2011

    Hmmmmm…  it appears to be connected to Akamai Technologies:

    http://www.robtex.com/ip/184.87.149.115.html

    So the Adobe store seems to be the ultimate culprit, as that is what they use to sell Adobe software via download.  .  Bummer.  

    Phillip M  Jones
    Inspiring
    December 23, 2011

    Tai Lao wrote:

    Hmmmmm…  it appears to be connected to Akamai Technologies:

    http://www.robtex.com/ip/184.87.149.115.html

    So the Adobe store seems to be the ultimate culprit, as that is what they use to sell Adobe software via download.  .  Bummer.  

    The akamai downloader installer has always been a piece of Cr**. The company should be run out of business. You go to download something, it takes 5-10 times longer to download anything through it, than be downloaded straight from and FTP site.  I can see paint dry and age a year in the time it takes anything to download by Akamai. they still must be using 14.4 K baud technology.