Re: Editing hosts file

From	richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject	Re: Editing hosts file
Date	2017-04-25 20:15 +0000
Organization	Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh
Message-ID	<odoapp$b9g$1@macpro.inf.ed.ac.uk> (permalink)
References	<odnfo4$npe$1@dont-email.me> <250420170930082235%nospam@nospam.invalid> <odnkhp$31g2$1@macpro.inf.ed.ac.uk> <250420171027007088%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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In article <250420171027007088%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
nospam  <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>> An ad blocker should let you block these domains
>> without having to list all the individual hosts.

>an ad blocker has the same (or very similar) list of sites, and they
>don't need to be individually listed.

An adblocker will probably let you block *.iosnare.*, while you have
to list dozens of them in /etc/hosts.

>> Privacy Badger is intended for this sort of thing, but you may find it
>> stops other sites from working.

>no loss. anything that won't work with ads being blocked is not worth
>the trouble.

Privacy Badger is not an ad blocker.  I have found that various credit
card processors don't work with it enabled.

-- Richard

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Editing hosts file Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 13:37 +0100
  Re: Editing hosts file richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-04-25 12:47 +0000
    Re: Editing hosts file Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 13:57 +0100
    Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 09:30 -0400
      Re: Editing hosts file richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-04-25 13:56 +0000
        Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 10:27 -0400
          Re: Editing hosts file richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-04-25 20:15 +0000
            Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 17:10 -0400
              Re: Editing hosts file richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-04-25 22:02 +0000
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:57 -0400
              Re: Editing hosts file news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) - 2017-04-25 23:23 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:57 -0400
                Re: Editing hosts file Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-04-26 12:36 +0200
                Re: Editing hosts file news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) - 2017-04-26 14:24 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-04-26 17:59 +0200
                Re: Editing hosts file Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2017-04-26 20:57 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2017-04-27 08:05 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2017-04-28 21:02 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-26 10:21 -0400
                Re: Editing hosts file news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) - 2017-04-27 09:50 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-27 09:29 -0400
                Re: Editing hosts file Graham J <graham@invalid.com> - 2017-04-27 16:15 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-27 11:25 -0400
                Re: Editing hosts file Graham J <graham@invalid.com> - 2017-04-27 16:39 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-27 12:15 -0400
                Re: Editing hosts file Graham J <graham@invalid.com> - 2017-04-27 23:17 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) - 2017-04-28 00:44 +0100
  Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 09:30 -0400
    Re: Editing hosts file Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 14:37 +0100

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