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Re:Blocklist Facebook domains on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:54PM (#16652612)
Any browser plugin is inferior to using a hosts file.

This is objectively false. A hosts file blocklist cannot:

- Global blacklist and whitelist select URLs

- Block all sub-domains of a given URL

- Block third-party iframes and scripts (with whitelist)

A hosts file's feature set is not a superset of a browser based solution and the two complement each other.