Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:19:19 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files Message-ID: <475EB887.6070902@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <20071211084309.A16234@wonkity.com> References: <475E0190.7030909@pacific.net.sg> <200712111718.05876.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <475EAC9D.1020902@pacific.net.sg> <20071211084309.A16234@wonkity.com>
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Hi, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> This is really what I want. Just avoiding the traffic, the time and >> the optical disturbance caused by all those sites. >> >> I would even prefer a method as simple as hosts but linked even to my >> user account. > > http://adblockplus.org/en/ works fine on Firefox. Easier to use and > more effective than 127.0.0.1 entries in /etc/hosts. > I do not even use Firefox. hosts has the clear limit that stuff coming from the same site as the text I want to read is still shown. In general, it works fine. But new sites have new stuff I would like to be filtered out. To make these experiences as rare as possible, I collect from friends and the Internet hosts files to filter as much as possible. This resulted in a pretty large file meanwhile. But the Internet looks much more usable for me now. Erich
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