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
