Ask HN: Suggestions for a current /etc/hosts DNS blacklist?

5 pointsby arh6811 năm trước2 comments

I am looking for a simple UNIX solution to blocking connections to ad servers. I am trying to minimize useless bandwidth usage, among other things. I have used Adblock+, Ghostery etc before but I'm looking for a simple, /etc/hosts-based solution. Of course, keeping a blacklist up-to-date is a small challenge. I have found:

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

StevenBlack's repo looks most promising, as it combines various sources, but I was curious if any HNers had better suggestions. Do you use a /etc/hosts blacklist? When was the last time it was updated? How many hosts does it block?

3 comments

MichaelCrawford11 năm trước

I'm not concerned with ads, exactly, but with analytics. That is I'm completely cool to look at an ad, provided it doesn't look back at me.

   127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
   127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
   127.0.0.1 www.hosted-pixel.com

I've got some more I'll dig them up - they're on my other computer.

ttctciyf11 năm trước

I've seen this mentioned in a few places: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

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