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Anyone know of a way to block "l.addthiscdn.com" when accessing Adobe forums ? dave?

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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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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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jtanna is on to it...

http://decoding.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/how-to-edit-the-hosts-file-in-mac-os-x-leopard/

Tai_LaoAuthor

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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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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

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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_LaoAuthor

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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_LaoAuthor

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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_LaoAuthor

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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

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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.

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