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Finally being fed up with pages that contain 5 banner ads which always load first completely before the page even starts, some even containing large video clips embedded, I searched for a solution and found one. It appears to work for me.

I came upon a website which details a large list of the most common banner ad and popup ad sites, such as ad.doubleclick.
By adding this large list to your windows host file (also works for most other OS's), and telling it to use 127.0.0.1 for these, they quickly fail if attempting a connection to these sites.

Then all you need to do is go into your browser's settings and under a window that should say something like "Do not use proxies for", paste the same list in the window.

Voila! I went to a website that I know to have a lot of banners, and they only came up as white rectangles, the website loaded much faster then.

Here is that website that details on it more.

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adblock.shtml