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๐Ÿ”’ Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories. (by StevenBlack)

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  • Digital Hygiene
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2025
    Why use NextDNS when you can use a lightweight, native solution[1]? Sorry if this sounds condescending but I need less services and not more.

    [1]: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

  • uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2025
    uBlock Origin still works in Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

    And you can, I believe, still just modify your hosts table to block out ads in Chrome. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

    Or your router's DNS using something like NextDNS. https://nextdns.io/

    Ads suck. Support content where you can, but even when you pay they still serve ads / tracking scripts. So fuck 'em. Block all the ads.

  • Pihole v6
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2025
  • Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2025
    You could get a step closer to that and integrate it into your DNS: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

    The upside is that it would go beyond your browser to anything on your machine that makes a DNS request.

    > Another great function (not for this plugin) should be the option to "bundle" all search results from the same domain. Stuff them under one collapsible entry.

    That would be really cool. Just zip it up if you don't want to see that domain for that specific search.

  • Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2024
    Time for a reminder that pretty good ad-blocking can be done with no software at all, just a customised hosts file - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts :-)
  • Ask HN: What are you replacing uBlock Origin with?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2024
    A hosts file from https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts, not using JavaScript with LibreSJS + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/workarounds-f... to browse
  • 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

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