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How do I block dang annoying Apture highlights pop up, when I hover over or highlight a word on a website?

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Kanne
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Having just installed Firefox 4 I am being constantly annoyed by "info" popups by "Apture highlights". Why on earth do they allow these sort of advertising pain-in-the-xxxx pop-ups? How can I stop it please??????

Having just installed Firefox 4 I am being constantly annoyed by "info" popups by "Apture highlights". Why on earth do they allow these sort of advertising pain-in-the-xxxx pop-ups? How can I stop it please??????

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Gert-Jan
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Add the following lines to you're hosts file

127.0.0.1 www.apture.com

127.0.0.1 apture.com

This works on linux and Windows platforms.

For windows XP the hosts file is usualy in this folder

C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS/ETC/

Good Luck!

Modified by Gert-Jan