How to make the internet not suck (as much)

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How to make the internet not suck (as much)

Unread post by bones » Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:41 pm

This may be the mother of all HOSTS files:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Text file direct link here:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

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Re: How to make the internet not suck (as much)

Unread post by dkeg » Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:22 pm

cool bones, thanks for sharing. I forgot about this.

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Unread post by machinebacon » Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:23 pm

Or check your/home/user/bin/ folder for an automated way :)
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Re: How to make the internet not suck (as much)

Unread post by swftech » Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:25 pm

Cool, just added it...thanks bones!

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Re: How to make the internet not suck (as much)

Unread post by bones » Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:33 pm

machinebacon wrote:Or check your/home/user/bin/ folder for an automated way :)
Aha! Hadn't noticed that before!

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:40 pm

Nice, something like this I always use on browsers without Adblock, though a lot of times it blocks something I want to see.

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Unread post by swftech » Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:18 pm

^ yes your right ivan. I had to comment out vomitgirls.org else it would be /blocked :)

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Re: How to make the internet not suck (as much)

Unread post by blarg » Sun Aug 18, 2013 7:44 pm

Some other huge lists:
MVPS Hosts
hpHosts
Peter Lowe's list
Cameleon Hosts
Malware Domain List

It should be possible to merge all this hosts files with the one from the first post to create a really huge one. On Windows, a Tool called HostsMan does exactly this.

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Re: How to make the internet not suck (as much)

Unread post by gurtid » Sun Aug 18, 2013 10:05 pm

erm . . . doesn't a crazy enormous hosts file slow things down? I seem to recall that being the case from my Window$ days but perhaps something else was afoot.
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Re: How to make the internet not suck (as much)

Unread post by blarg » Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:06 pm

My hosts file contains all hosts I've listed, and my connection is as fast as always.

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Re: How to make the internet not suck (as much)

Unread post by gurtid » Mon Aug 19, 2013 2:20 am

thanks blarg :)
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