Re:FilterLists – directory of filter lists for ads, trackers...
by leeoniya on Saturday February 20, 2016 @02:16PM
(#11141443)
be _very_ careful about copy-pasting an enormous hosts file with one found on the internet, especially one served over http. such a thing is ripe for phishing injection.
it takes one malicious entry in the list of 10k which doesnt loop back to your own machine for me to present you with a legit-looking and secure "capitolone.com" home page.
Re:FilterLists – directory of filter lists for ads, trackers...
by DavideNL on Saturday February 20, 2016 @05:17PM
(#11142228)
the solution is to use something like:
curl --silent http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts | grep '^127.0.0.1' > /etc/hosts
I always wondered what the web would feel like, in terms of experience, without some manner of filtering. The last time I rode bareback on the internet without ADblockers, or even rudimentary hosts blocking was at an Airport kiosk stand, which even then felt weird, because the New York Times was still only learning about fingerprinting and grabbing what is effectively the Mac address of any machine using Flash.