Hi,
So I no longer wanted an adblocker so I uninstalled it via Safari Preferences but I'm still getting the annoyingly long adbreaks on Hulu that are just blank screens that say sorry and blame my adblocker.
The only help I've found on the internet has suggested changing some kind of host file, but only offer a how-to on Windows. How do I do this on a Mac?
Thanks!
Uninstalled AdBlock but Hulu thinks otherwise
Re: Uninstalled AdBlock but Hulu thinks otherwise
The hosts file on most Unix-like systems is in /etc/ and I think is in /private/etc/ on OS X; as on Windows, its name is hosts and it's a plain-text file with no extension.
If you don't know how to launch an app as the superuser, it's probably easiest to copy the hosts file from /private/etc/ to your Desktop, edit it there, then copy it back; you should just have a few lines that set up things like "localhost" and "broadcasthost", but nothing that sets specific domain names to incorrect IP addresses, the way an ad-blocking hosts file would.
If you don't know how to launch an app as the superuser, it's probably easiest to copy the hosts file from /private/etc/ to your Desktop, edit it there, then copy it back; you should just have a few lines that set up things like "localhost" and "broadcasthost", but nothing that sets specific domain names to incorrect IP addresses, the way an ad-blocking hosts file would.
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