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I personally think it is a clear message that how vulnerable Google's business model is. This hosts file blocks AdSense, as well as Microsoft's AdCenter, and a variety of websites. If, just if, Microsoft makes it an add-on feature available in IE's Internet Option, and tell users they can simply enable this feature to block unwanted parasites and annoying ads to surf safely, I think many users will do that.
Ad revenue is just one pie for MS, but that is all for Google.
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Microsoft has been slapped around by the US government over monopoly issues, as well as in Europe. It could never get away with altering the host file to automatically block Google.
Just found my current employer (a large organization) has blocked AdSense by deploying a Windows hosts file...
1. You don't deploy a Windows host file. You can however edit a host file. Every PC has a hosts file. The hosts file itself does not block AdSense. Only when you edit the hosts file can you achieve any number of results. All you need to edit the hosts file is a text editor like notepad to edit it. There are also numerous applications that edit it to accomplish a myriad of results.
2. There's nothing to react to. The hosts file is just a standard part of your PC. Microsoft, unlike Norton Internet Security, has done nothing to block AdSense.
There again, may not want to be seen to take steps to "force" ads on people who REALLY don't want them. That's my guess.
