I dont know about the rest of you, but I cannot stand IntelliTXT advertising on my favorite sites. What is IntelliTXT? It's a new advertising medium that turns actual keywords on a webpage into clickable links. This method of placing ads can be very intrusive, because if your mouse accidentally passes over one of these many double-underlined links, an ad is displayed right over all the text in that area.
Anyway, you probably found this article because you want to disable it, so if you have 2 minutes to spare, lets do it.
Goto Start then Run and type in the following
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS
After pressing Enter, an "Open With" dialog box will appear. Choose to open the file with Notepad. Leave this file open as you perform the next step.
Visit one of your favorite sites thats uses IntelliTXT. Once the page is fully loaded, view the source of the page. (In IE: View>Source, in Mozilla: View>Page Source)
Once the page source is open, press <CONTROL>+<F> on your keyboard. Do a search for "intellitxt.com"
We want the full domain name before any slashes. For example, mine would probably be
http://tleone.us.intellitxt.com/intellitxt/front.asp?ipid=2346
All we need is what is in bold above. Now go back to the HOSTS file you have open. We will need to create a new entry. Add the following line at the end of the file.
127.0.0.1 tleone.us.intellitxt.com
Do the same for all of your favorite sites then save and close the HOSTS file. Close and reopen your browsers and the IntelliTXT links will be gone.
Note: In case you care, lots of sites/forums have "Terms of Use" that may disallow any methods or programs that block advertising on the site.
Show/Hide commentsAlternatively for IE... Enter http://*.us.intellitxt.com to your restricted sites list. This worked like a charm for me, and should cover all sites!
I cannot get it to work in Vista 64. I get an error message when I try to save the Hosts file that access has been denied. Nothing else is stated. I am the admin and am logged in as such. I have right clicked on the Hosts file to see if I could open as the admin, but that is not an option.
OK, I found a work around solution at http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm. I modified their hosts file to include only the intellitxt stuff (I am not anti-ads). I just do not like intellitxt and this did work. FOr me, the hosts file worked and the restricted site list did not....
Thank you for the information. The more sites that talk about it, the easier it is to locate the solution in a web search.
"Note: In case you care, lots of sites/forums have "Terms of Use" that may disallow any methods or programs that block advertising on the site."
TOS's and EULA's are a complete joke. Damn everyone who uses them when they aren't applicable, which is nearly everyone that uses them. I'll do whatever I damn well please when browsing the Internet, thank you very much.
As for adding it to the Restricted Sites in IE, this works for IE of course but if you use other browsers like Firefox in addition to IE then this is a sub-optimal solution. I must use both browsers, unfortunately, due to some retarded sites using M$ "extensions" to W3C standards which Firefox thankfully doesn't support. The HOSTS file is the best solution. If you use Vista, I'm sorry.
Hi folks. I use Firefox almost exclusively (except when forced by Microsoft etc to use IE), and I can't stand these kinds of ads either. So I went hunting, found this page, and went hunting some more, and found an add-on for Firefox that makes it easy to block these. It's called BlockSite 0.6. The link is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3145 .
Once it's installed, you'll have to restart Firefox. Then go to Tools > Add-ons and click on the Options button for BlockSite. In the Blacklist section, click Add, and enter http://*.intellitxt.com . Reload any page you have up that's got those links, and they'll be gone. Shiny!
This should work for kona.kontera.com (as RpD previously mentioned this was an intellitxt competitor). http://*.kontera.com should do the trick. Same goes for any other ickies that might pop up (no pun intended).
I may not have gone the extra steps to find that add-on if it hadn't been for you lovely folks here, so many thanks! Cheers :)
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