How To Get Rid Of Advertisements in the Apple News App on the Mac

This is a simple, but useful one. If you hate ADs as much as I do, this is a quick solution that gets rid of most of the advertisements in the Apple News app on the Mac.

All you have to do is add/modify a line in your /etc/hosts and send traffic for news.iadsdk.apple.com into the bit bucket:

127.0.0.1    localhost news.iadsdk.apple.com 

If you have access to a squid server, you can have it block the same and send your iOS traffic through that proxy to have the same effect on your iPhone and iPad.

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