Re: Replacing /etc/hosts as a spyco 127.0.0.1 redirection address blocker ?

Mike Jones wrote:

My /etc/hosts file is becoming rather large, and as the list of addresses
I find I'm adding to it grows daily, I'm now looking for an alternative
way to sidetrack DNS away from a list of possible connections.

Use privoxy as John already suggested or any other application that helps you
to block advertisements.
I do discourage people from using the hosts file as you do, it may look as a
good solution that works, but you will cause troubles and unneeded loc traffic.


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