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Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

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	Hi.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:14:36PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> Not to go off-topic, but you wrote:
> "Difficult for me to judge. I do have over 13000 hostnames in /etc/hosts
> which I hope has an accelerating effect on loading pages (though I"
> 
> So you aggressively flaunt conventional wisdom with this practice. What is your
> secret? I have often thought of doing the same when DNS queries crawl, but it
> seemed that surely if the answer was so simple, others would have
> discovered it already ;-)

It is simple, but the implementation is questionable.

One can put all major banner networks, maybe Google, Facebook and their
friends into your /etc/hosts and point all those entries to 127.0.0.1.
Works wonders on loading Internet web-pages, although someone may
consider that "it can break web sites", or "it robs website owners of
their income", or some other such nonsense.


The main questions here are:

1) How does one obtains such site list.
Using any public source for this is suspiciously close to censorship.

2) Why bother with /etc/hosts at all, if one can use DNS or HTTP proxy
for the same purpose with much simplier configuration (hint - you cannot
block all sites in a domain via /etc/hosts unless you list all of them
there).

3) Why cripple system-wide resolver for a single program (in this
case - a browser). A suitable browser plugin should suffice here.

Reco

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Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-23 20:20 +0200
  Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-06-24 02:30 +0200
    Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> - 2018-06-24 03:10 +0200
      Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ (PS) John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-06-26 09:40 +0200
      Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-06-26 09:40 +0200
        Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-06-26 21:20 +0200
          Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with  https://manpages.debian.org/) Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-06-26 22:10 +0200
            Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with  https://manpages.debian.org/) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-06-27 01:00 +0200
              Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with  https://manpages.debian.org/) Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-06-27 09:20 +0200
                Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with  https://manpages.debian.org/) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-06-28 05:30 +0200
                Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with  https://manpages.debian.org/) Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-06-28 08:40 +0200
                Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with  https://manpages.debian.org/) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-06-28 17:20 +0200
    Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-06-24 03:20 +0200
    Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-06-24 04:10 +0200
    Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-06-24 09:50 +0200
  Additional info [Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-24 10:10 +0200

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