I recently came across the MVPS hosts file and became fascinated with the concept of blocking ads upstream from your browser. I don't know much about how quickly adblockers work, nor how quickly the hosts file can operate.
Would I get any noticeable speed boost by using that hosts file and disabling the adblock browser plugin?
EDIT: Just a quick update - I tried it, and it seems to be much quicker with the edited hosts file, if you can tolerate things like this:
This showed up on the Youtube homepage, I'll perform further testing to see if these are particularly prevalent.