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Makes sense. For some adblocking on steroids, put all of this in your hosts file: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ 12,000 d
by davidscolgan 9y ago
Makes sense. For some adblocking on steroids, put all of this in your hosts file: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
12,000 domains of ads and tracking blocked at the OS level!
- folknor 9y agoI've used https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts for years now, and any close- and extended-family laptop or computer I touch gets it either silently or with some explanation if they ask me what I'm doing. Noone has ever complained. My only gripe is that I haven't written a cron-type update script for my extended family members who use Windows. Which means I only update it for them periodically. It's still better than not doing it. It aggregates someonewhocares.org and many other sources into a combined hosts file, to the point where it actually slows down DNS lookups noticably on most computers. I even use it on my phones, and all other devices where I can access the filesystem. Almost all devices in the world support a hosts file, becase most of the network stacks in use today spring from the same code. EDIT: It has 40-55 thousand host entries, depending on which version you use. In my scripts I just curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...
- davidscolgan 9y agoOi! Thanks for this. I am going to start using it from now on.