Blocking website ads with a hosts file

Re:Blocking website ads with a hosts file by Moru on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @01:46AM (#18976222)

I run Pi-hole too, can handle much more than the hosts file of a windows computer. It was a while since I used the hosts file to block ads but at that time the computer could lock up quite a while now and then, and the problem dissappeared when I cleared the hosts file again.

It's realy neat to get autoprotection for all your devices at the same time with the Pi-hole.

Just ad uBlock to the browser to remove the rest ads and get a much smother web experience without distractions :-)

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Re:Blocking website ads with a hosts file by seanp2k2 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:30AM (#18976638)

also: hosts file can cause problems with things like Windows Update and other software that you might want to keep working. Pi-hole is easier to disable. I always forget that I installed some hosts file blocks with Blackbird ( https://www.getblackbird.net/ ) which is an otherwise pretty nice tool (aside from that and how it's unclear if you're enabling or disabling something, since the switches "toggle" something instead of expressing that you want to disable or enable it specifically).

+1 for pihole; rPis / odroids / SBCs / NUCs / home servers are easy enough to run that it's worth it.

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Re:Blocking website ads with a hosts file by michaelx on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:20AM (#18976596)

Second Pi-hole + uBlock Origin. Just a bummer that the Safari fork of uBlock Origin seems to be EOL because of the new restrictions in Safari.

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Re:Blocking website ads with a hosts file by DavideNL on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:10AM (#18978737)

Same. My Macbook also took significantly longer to boot when using a large host file - like an approximately 45 seconds freeze...

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