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Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:14PM (#30583469)
My /etc/hosts file on the machine I work on all day blocks 68k hosts 24/7. No social media sites at all except Twitter. No ads.

Meanwhile, the Leechblock browser add-on stops me from using the few things I do otherwise (bits of Reddit, HN) allow between 09:00 and 17:00 which is not perfect but it's a start. Except ... I disable it a lot :(

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Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll by kibwen on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:03AM (#30584398)
> Except ... I disable it a lot :(

Not sure if you know, but there are advanced options to put various roadblocks in your way, such as disabling access to the options menu, or disabling access to the add-ons menu entirely.

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Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll by abvdj2 on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:23PM (#30583518)
would you share the hosts file by any chance? 68k seems better than what I have
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Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll by djKianoosh on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:33PM (#30583578)
it's probably something like this: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll by ratww on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:42PM (#30583642)
Not OP but I can recommend those also for blocking social networks: https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/tree/master/corporatio...
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Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll by Jaruzel on Monday March 07, 2022 @02:42AM (#30585174)
What's the performance impact of such a large hosts file ?
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Re:My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll by xxs on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:16AM (#30585724)
You gain performance by blocking thousands of sockets opened, data transferred and processed.

Host lookup should be O(1) and entirely in memory, so I see zero issue perf. wise to begin with.

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