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• Chrome Is Entrenching Third-Party Cookies That Will Mislead Users
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2024

  > DoH and similar technologies don't override /etc/hosts.

  It seems that it does:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1544233

  https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/968

  https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/e64073/dns_over_ht...

  https://www.liquidweb.com/help-docs/Fixing-Firefox-Bypassing...

  https://superuser.com/questions/437649/firefox-not-taking-no...

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37452361/why-is-my-hosts...

• Manifest V2 phase-out begins
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2024

  Well at least the techie crowd can still use /etc/hosts (or the equivs on Mac/Win) which, if frequently-enough (weekly, biweekly, even monthly is enough) updated with the https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts , seems to "block" ads sufficiently well (no in-page DOM node removals of course, just network-unreachable image/script/iframe/popup URLs).

• Does PiHole block porn?
  2 projects | /r/pihole | 6 Dec 2023

  Not by default but a blocklist can be found here https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

• Steven Black DNS blocklist blocked gstatic.com
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2023

  While it is now unblocked, the Steven Black list has been blocking a lot of innocent CDNs.

  jQuery: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2520

• Open Source Ad Blocker for Mac, Windows, and Linux
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023

  How does this compare to using a hosts file with known ad servers?

  like: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

• Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2023

  I use the Hosts file to block a ton of ads and that works really well. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Something worth considering if your ad blocker isn't working well.

• Big things are happening with RaspAP's Ad Blocking 🛑 Users will soon have more blocklist sources to choose from
  2 projects | /r/RaspAP | 8 Oct 2023

  The no-tracking project used by RaspAP is shutting down, so we took the opportunity to search for open source blocklist alternatives. Among the best is Steven Black's hosts list: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

• Radar Maps: $0.50 per 1K map loads
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023

  No idea, api.radar.io is on the block list since January 2020.

  The commit's comment is "major update from adaway.org"

  https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts/commit/4fa0470

• Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2023

  You can also use a declarative adblocker like uBlock Origin Lite [1], which only provides the browser with a list of elements to filter, but doesn't have any permissions to read content or perform requests. Or simply use your hosts file to apply OS-wide filtering with no browser add-ons needed: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

  Be aware that if you use these "passive" blocking methods, there are some sites like YouTube where you will see ads, because in these cases it's necessary to actually manipulate page content to hide them. What you can do is use a traditional adblocker but enable it only for these few sites where the declarative approach is not enough, take a look at [2] for more details.

  [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

  [2] https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/04/layered-content-blocking...

• I installed Firefox + uBlock Origin like everyone suggested in my previous post, but this pop-up still appears, now with a 5 sec timer.
  1 project | /r/Piracy | 16 Aug 2023

  https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts if you want to do it on your PC.

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