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Funny, my hosts file seems to interrupt the flow of this prank slightly. We'll see how my s.o. reacts to it, but on my machine it does absolutely nothing. In

• JonnieCache 15y ago
  You can achieve a similar thing with the ghostery extension. http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/
  • kgosser 15y ago
    Wow cool thanks for the link. Just installed it.
  • NanoWar 15y ago
    Ah that's why I see nothing. Nice!
  • NapoleonB 15y ago
    thanks, also didnt know about this one - was using 'abine' which is similar. I like the ghost icon though :-)
• RyanKearney 15y ago
  Actually no one really cares what your host file looks like.
  • chunkyslink 15y ago
    I'm quite interested. Mostly because I use similar Facebook blocking techniques so its nice to know what others do too.
  • 0x12 15y ago
    One of the problems with speaking for everybody on a forum with 10's of thousands of active users is that invariably you don't.
  • ltamake 15y ago
    Your opinion does not equate to everyone's opinion. I'm quite interested in his hosts file (because of blocking like buttons).
    • nightpool 15y ago
      This reminds me of a really good bash.org quote: bash.org/?99060
• ottbot 15y ago
  Is it actually funny or surprising to you, given your hosts configuration, or did you just want to mention it?
  • 0x12 15y ago
    Surprising, because I'd totally forgotten about it and really wanted to see what this was all about (after reading some of the comments here). So I thought to myself 'ok, this once' knowing I'd be sticking my head out. It took me a minute or two to realize the cause and I thought that was a nice side-effect of solving this at the DNS layer, even when you're momentarily stupid this will still create enough of a barrier that you'll stop to think a bit longer. I didn't know about the ghostery extension, so thanks to the person that posted that, that's another good solution. FB has had its use for me (it found a bunch of long lost people), I haven't been back since.
    • joh6nn 15y ago
      i'm guessing that you actually have a bunch of other sites blocked in your hosts file, as well. on the assumption that you do, do you ever see any network performance issues related to this? i used to maintain a rather large hosts file for this purpose, but eventually gave it up because i suspected that it had started doing more harm than good.
      • 0x12 15y ago
        No, facebook has a special place in my heart, which is why they got 'special treatment'. Other than the usual suspects and FB my host file is empty. I can see how a huge hostfile would impact performance, and I would advice against using it to block a very large number of hosts.
        • rufibarbatus 15y ago
          Some of these hostnames are quite arcane to me (peace.facebook.com); did you get them from a list somewhere or did you identify each one of them yourself?
• eli 15y ago
  You're better off using a browser extension or other technique. Facebook uses a lot of subdomains like static.ak.fbcdn.net and there's no way you can include them all in your list.
  • 0x12 15y ago
    Good point. I'm pretty old school so the hosts file was my first line of defense. I didn't know about ghostery until this thread so that's installed now as well.
  • dfc 15y ago
    Just point your dns cache to an instance of tinydns that is configured to be authoritative for fb's domains.
• jisaacstone 15y ago
  on Opera it just shows a 'like' button. Any ideas on that?
• veyron 15y ago
  There was another discussion on this point, where a few others were added: 0.0.0.0 static.ak.fbcdn.net 0.0.0.0 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net 0.0.0.0 login.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 www.login.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 fbcdn.com 0.0.0.0 www.fbcdn.com 0.0.0.0 static.ak.connect.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com