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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?