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Skip the Windows HOSTS file and use something like Acrylic DNS[0], works great for me and supports wildcards. I even use it together with the router to have my
by AlexDragusin 6y ago
Skip the Windows HOSTS file and use something like Acrylic DNS[0], works great for me and supports wildcards.
I even use it together with the router to have my phone use the DNS and you can see which hosts get connected and so on as you use the phone. It ain't pretty.
[0]: https://mayakron.altervista.org/support/acrylic/Home.htm https://mayakron.altervista.org/support/acrylic/Home.htm
- cdurth 6y agoany curated block lists you recommend for the lazy?
- ffpip 6y agoI have an extremely basic one on my Windows machine - https://pastebin.com/ZfUv6E2c https://pastebin.com/ZfUv6E2c Bing, Facebook, Windows Web Search and some other sites don't work (unless you use DNS over https in Firefox, which ignores the host files.) Go through r/pihole for the recommended ones.
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