The folder is the /private/etc folder, and is normally hidden.
Use the Go menu from the finder, then choose Go to Folder. Enter /private/etc
You'll see the hosts file there, in the etc folder

If you want to try the commands, you enter those in your Terminal, which is in your Applications/Utilities folder

What are you doing that you want to hide from the rest of the world.

Actually there was a good answer few posts back
”It's just using a standard marketing tool, and not personal.”
I do not like to be a part of any marketing and specially of the one that after some time will cater the results of my search according to my previous interests. I do not care if somebody reads the information that have been gathered, but I am against the information being gathered at all and used for marketing. Google is great search engine, but it is a monster business also.

1. Hi Vortexboy if up till now you cannot figure thing out please tell me.

2. I am raising this dead thread because of this whole Google browser privacy thingy , as denoted by this article.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/09/...mvention-case/


3.Please inform me exactly how the privacy compromise happened because I cannot understand it. Most importantly tell me whether these instructions protect me from Google's anal invasion. I would think so because is double click is diverted to 127.0.0.1 then there no information being transferred.

You mean "doubleclick.com". "double click" means hitting the mouse button twice.

All that does is block requests to doubleclick.com. Google (along with just about everyone else) is watching you.

Ever notice that each search link on Google actually goes to their server first? Then to the real destination?

If you really want to keep things to yourself: avoid the search engines, disable javascript, use your own mail server, or in general just stay off the internet. otherwise accept that unless you log in to something you are just one in a crowd of about a billion.

Google is not spying on YOU. No one at Google is ever going to sit at a computer and say "show me what student13 has been doing". Google has absolutely no interest in what you as an individual have been doing.

What they will do is say "give me a list of people who have searched for "cheese" or visited sites about cheese (or sent emails through Gmail with the word "cheese"). And you will be one of the millions of people in that list. And this request would be automatic, as the data is too large and there are too many requests.

Then, they can put adverts about cheese in pages you visit and gather data about how many people are interested in cheese. And this is what makes them money, as the cheesemakers will pay for the adverts and the data.

In short: it's not all about you. It's about the cheese.

Excellent explanation! And the quote of the day.

Thanks, benwiggy.