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Re: Blocklist of all Facebook domains

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Post by jpkeisala »

jpkeisala wrote: post #23

Slightly off topic: It would be nice to have some kind of extension for Chrome that blocks all Time-Wasting websites with one click. Has anyone seen something like that?

answering my own guestion... I could have just google it instead of writing my thoughts... https://www.google.com/search?q=un-productive+sites&ie=utf-8...

Re: Blocklist of all Facebook domains

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Post by yoo1I »

justsaysmthng wrote: post #22

I'm sorry, I've been away for a couple of hours... What happened ? Why should I (we) block all facebook domains ?

You should do nothing. I can think of at least one good reason why I want to do that though: to disable their tracking of non-users on this my computer.

Re: Blocklist of all Facebook domains

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Post by Borating »

Namidairo wrote: post #14
maaaats wrote: post #9

Would wildcard support in hosts files be too heavy for the performance needed? Most of these are subdomains that *.facebook.com would have blocked.

My first impression when I saw it was something along the lines of "this would be so much cleaner if one were writing this as a dnsmasq config"

I agree. From this project I discover FreeContributor [1], which use dnsmasq has a DNSBL.

[1] https://github.com/tbds/FreeContributor

Re: Blocklist of all Facebook domains

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Post by apancik »

jpkeisala wrote: post #23

Slightly off topic: It would be nice to have some kind of extension for Chrome that blocks all Time-Wasting websites with one click. Has anyone seen something like that?

I discovered that using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/waitblock/kcnjfepp... to add a delay before opening the time-wasting website actually works better when trying to procrastinate less. Waiting 60 seconds before Fb loads gives you enough time to think about whether you want to visit it, but is also not so inconveniencing that it would make you disable it straight away when you actually want to visit the site.

Re: Blocklist of all Facebook domains

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Post by Borating »

marios wrote: post #15

Not the way I'd do it, since you can easily miss on some new domain that belongs to facebook (or perhaps some server that does not look like it belongs to facebook in the first place, but it is sitting in their assigned subnets). If you really want to block all traffic from/to facebook, lookup the IP prefixes associated with their AS number(AS32934), and setup your firewall to block those. If you are using PF, tables…

Like this [1], More details at [2]

[1] http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/16096/block-all-f...

[2] http://www.tcpiputils.com/browse/as/32934

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