How to Block, Bypass, Disable, Remove Ads from CPA Ad Networks Like CPALead

Advertisements from different CPA ad networks like CPAlead survey ads some times ruins the reputation of good sites and annoys the website visitors. Webmasters can generate extra revenue by using CPAlead ads.
These surveys becomes a common hurdle to access the so called “premium content” especially in certain forums and free download websites. These types of advertisements are forcing the visitor to complete a survey or similar stuff to get access to the site’s content. This become more irritating when these surveys require contact information like phone numbers or money to compete the survey. In that case no other option to exit form the website.

How to Block Bypass or Remove CPAlead Survey ads

Let use discuss few method to block CPAlead Survey ads as well as few scripts, software and browser plug ins that blocks the survey ads.

Use the Hosts File to Block Block Adware

Perhaps this is one of the best method to block ads. The hosts file is a computer file used in an operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses.
The file name is “hosts” without any extension. The hosts file contains lines of text consisting of an IP address in the first text field followed by one or more hostnames, each field separated by white space as shown below,

127.0.0.1 localhost loopback

You can block ads by assigning the loopback IP 127.0.0.1 to an URL that you wish blocked. the “127.0.0.1 localhost ” is the loopback entry. It defines a local address and can be used to direct the computer to send a packet to itself. To block cpaleads.com just add the following entry in the hosts file.
127.0.0.1 “adwebsite.com”
ou need to use the actual URL without quotes in place of “adwebsite.com“.

But the disadvantage here is that you need to add individual advertising agencies URL to block each one of them. But many ads can be blocked by putting a list of the URLs of the largest advertising agencies into the hosts file.

Where is the location of hosts file?

• Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, and 32-bit versions of XP,[3] 2003, Vista, 7 :%SystemRoot%system32driversetc
• Mac OS X 10.2 and newer, iOS : /private/etc/hosts
• Symbian OS 9.1+ : C:private10000882hosts
• Android : /system/etc/hosts
• Unix, Unix-like (AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Minix, Ultrix etc) , POSIX : /etc/hosts

Browser Add-Ons, Scripts and Bookmarklets

Adblock Plus Firefox Add-On

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XJZ Survey Remover

The XJZ Survey Remover allows you to easily remove surveys from websites. The XJZ Survey Remover supports surveys from providers such as CPAlead, AdscendMedia, LeadBolt etc.
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