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That doesn't stop anyone using IP addresses directly, and I find that a small minority does (but that minority does including, e.g. Microsoft for some Win10 upd
by beagle3 9y ago
That doesn't stop anyone using IP addresses directly, and I find that a small minority does (but that minority does including, e.g. Microsoft for some Win10 updates).
Depending on your threat model, you might need to go the proxy/firewall route.
Hosts file is a weird middle ground - that has to be installed and maintained on every device, many of which (e.g. iphone/ipad) won't let you do that. It's better to set up a local DNS, which will serve every local machine; and as I mentioned, doing this at a firewall level is better yet.
- kgwxd 9y agoThat only works on your local network. You always need something on the device if you want to take it anywhere.
- vaseem 9y agoHomelab: pi-hole, pfsense, openvpn Mobile Devices: openvpn client
- vanadium 9y agoThis is pretty much my jam at home and away. Works great.
- deevolution 9y agoI started using the brave browser, which i noticed blocks alot of network requests. Loading the NYT took about 25 seconds to finish all requests using chrome. With brave it took 4 seconds. Also brave gives you the option to pay the sites you visit with BAT tokens, if you want. Brave in conjunction with Pi-hole looks like even more secure and perhaps further page load speed. Edit: spelling
- win32x86 9y agoI use urlfilterservice on my Windows 10 laptop. It works well for me. https://www.urlfilterservice.net https://www.urlfilterservice.net
- zxcb1 9y agoWith PfSense you can block by country or ASN and avoid huge blocklists
- OnMyPhone 9y agoThat's mostly what I use at home too. It works very well. It doesn't quite work well while on the road sometimes. For those cases, I have a docker running diginc/pi-hole (with some additional hosts file blocking going on), then I point my laptops DNS towards that and am good to go.
- jimpudar 9y agoEven better, replace pfsense with PF running on OpenBSD. Pi-Hole is awesome though, can't recommend it enough.