Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
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Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
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Re: Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
#2In Australia the government went on this rampage of attempting to "protect" people through censorship. Perhaps a better solution would have simply been to ask Microsoft and Apple to distribute computers with a pre-loaded host file. Nice and easy to opt out, all while providing some decent protection from obvious silly sites.
Re: Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
#3I like the idea of this, just deciding how to balance it with my own hosts file that has local entries vs keeping this one updated (presuming it will be)
Interesting that something that looks to have taken a fair bit of work and is moderately useful hasn't had a comment on it.
Re: Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
#4for domains you don't want to route try 192.0.2.x - that range is reserved for examples and won't end up with spurious requests to stuff you're running on localhost.
Re: Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
#5I like dark high contrast themes, this is not.
Smart and simple though.
Re: Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
#6for domains you don't want to route try 192.0.2.x - that range is reserved for examples and won't end up with spurious requests to stuff you're running on localhost.
Will browsers immediately fail the connection, or will it try to make the connection and wait for a timeout? I generally use 0.42.42.42 because Class-A addresses can't start with 0, so they fail immediately.
Re: Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
#7I see a load of porn sites. Just how does this Make The Internet Not Suck? (damn it's even more annoying to write incorrect casing than read it.) I thought this was going to block the fifty "Share this! Email this!" buttons on websites or something... If you don't visit porn websites, you won't visit these domains anyway; what's the point in blocking them in a huge hosts file?
Re: Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
#8I'd recommend Gas Mask for anyone editing their hosts file:
(Plug for own site with similar stuff): http://pineapple.io/resources/gas-mask
Gas mas direct link: https://code.google.com/p/gmask/
Re: Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
#9I like the idea of this, just deciding how to balance it with my own hosts file that has local entries vs keeping this one updated (presuming it will be) Interesting that something that looks to have taken a fair bit of work and is moderately useful hasn't had a comment on it.
Re: Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much
#10Nice list to go trough in boring times @ work.
Thanks.