Blocklist Facebook domains

Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by partycoder on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @07:27PM (#16633792)

A blacklist approach to this is for sure a cat and mouse game. A better approach is to incrementally whitelist the domains you trust.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by rphlx on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:12PM (#16634414)

In general blacklists are a better choice overall for non-technical users. Do you really want an angry text message or phone call every time $FAMILY_MEMBER has some site that's rendering poorly because they haven't properly whitelisted one of the 12 legit domains it hits? And do you really trust them to not whitelist some ad & tracking domains?

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by megous on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @05:26AM (#16636580)

Presumably, $FAMILY_MEMBER would have to get past the phone number whitelist too. So it might not be that bad.

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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains by cgmg on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @08:29PM (#16634161)

Not sure why you were downvoted, but this is correct. Facebook (or anyone else) can easily create more domains.

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