I was just reading some news before crashing, when I made the mistake of clicking a Forbes.com link. The next thing that happened in my mind was the antagonizing feeling of annoyance that I had forgotten that Forbes.com has those stupid god damn pre-site interstitial-type splash-screen ads. After clicking “Skip this ad” I settled in to reading my article. No sooner had I read the first paragraph was I blasted in the face with “WHERE SHOULD YOU BE INVESTING YOUR MONEY RIGHT ..” before I was able to hit the pause button. A fucking talking ad on Forbes.com? A talking ad with auto-play enabled. A talking ad hocking some get-rich quick program. Remarkable.

The solution:

echo "127.0.0.1 www.forbes.com" >>/etc/hosts

Now even if I make the stupid mistake of clicking on a Forbes link, at least I won’t have to suffer through looking at that pile of shit web site.