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🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

244 mentions on Hacker News by 168 people: 21 stories, 223 comments · first 2013-02-22 · latest 2026-10-07

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  1. …to the sources I've aggregated from: https://firebog.net/ https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/jerryn70/GoodbyeAds Link to my in-progress list file hosting:…
    comment by BLKNSLVR · 2026-10-07 · in ESP32-C3 Adblock
  2. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by Noaidi · 2026-07-22 · in Safari Technology Preview 248 Released
  3. …Google. DDG, searx and the like. - Dillo and a hosts file cuts down both ads and cookies/trackers: https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts . On the NUC, using a browser with UBo today it's digitally suicidal. - For news, I avoid all…
    comment by anthk · 2026-07-01 · in A retrospective of my time on the internet
  4. …a great compilation of curated block lists you can put into your etc/hosts file to block traffic :) https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by gaiagraphia · 2026-06-01 · in I made my phone slow on purpose
  5. just sinkhole the domains https://dpaste.com/E7RZ34MVD https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by 0123456789ABCDE · 2026-05-02 · in Do_not_track
  6. …is some background info on the act from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fakes_Act . [0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/readme.md
    comment by rookderby · 2026-01-09 · in The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?
  7. …well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories. // https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts * NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet // https://nextdns.io/ * uBlock Origin – Get this…
    comment by dbg31415 · 2025-11-20 · in Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
  8. Debian Linux, Brave browser, and host file modifications by: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by Flere-Imsaho · 2025-10-04 · in Email immutability matters more in a world with AI
  9. …Lynx, Links, and services like gemi://gemi.dev work perfectly fine. The same with hosts files: https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts Good luck banning Unix config files. My machine, my rules.
    comment by anthk · 2025-08-15 · in Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?
  10. I've used https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts myself for a few years, I think this is a fantastic collection for hosts based blocking.
    comment by dominis · 2025-08-06 · in Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist
  11. I don’t know about their list but I would start with https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by hk1337 · 2025-07-10 · in Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale
  12. I feel like that document is seriously outdated. This GitHub repo seems way more up-to-date: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by reddalo · 2025-07-04 · in Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)
  13. …native solution[1]? Sorry if this sounds condescending but I need less services and not more. [1]: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by Pooge · 2025-03-19 · in Digital Hygiene
  14. …And you can, I believe, still just modify your hosts table to block out ads in Chrome. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Or your router's DNS using something like NextDNS. https://nextdns.io/ Ads suck. Support content where you can, but…
    comment by dbg31415 · 2025-03-10 · in uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
  15. I have a script update my hosts file to route domains to 0.0.0.0 and ::0 . I get the domains from https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts .
    comment by TriangleEdge · 2025-02-18 · in Pi-hole v6
  16. …filters courtesy of[2]. [1]: https://unbound.docs.nlnetlabs.nl/en/latest/topics/filtering... [2]: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by VTimofeenko · 2025-02-18 · in Pi-hole v6
  17. You could get a step closer to that and integrate it into your DNS: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts The upside is that it would go beyond your browser to anything on your machine that makes a DNS request. > Another great function (not…
    comment by troyvit · 2025-01-15 · in Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results
  18. …that pretty good ad-blocking can be done with no software at all, just a customised hosts file - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts :-)
    comment by cmacleod4 · 2024-12-26 · in Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
  19. A hosts file from https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts , not using JavaScript with LibreSJS + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/workarounds-f... to browse on some pages which require JS. Also I use the News Waflle service from…
    comment by anthk · 2024-10-11 · in Ask HN: What are you replacing uBlock Origin with?
  20. …a teen 3) Contact your ISP to block all the porn/gambling/illegal domains and such at DNS level 4) https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts for the rest of HN users, it can be really effective if you disable DoH on most browsers
    comment by anthk · 2024-09-11 · in Utah law restricting youth social media use blocked by judge
  21. …override /etc/hosts. It seems that it does: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1544233 https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/968 https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/e64073/dns_over_ht...…
    comment by autoexec · 2024-08-30 · in Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users
  22. …you can use Steven Black's ad list to create a hosts file to DNS sink ad/bad networks locally: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by nazgulsenpai · 2024-06-06 · in PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium
  23. …on Mac/Win) which, if frequently-enough (weekly, biweekly, even monthly is enough) updated with the https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts (or similar other projects if they exist), seems to "block" ads sufficiently well (no in-page DOM node…
    comment by dualogy · 2024-05-31 · in Manifest V2 phase-out begins
  24. …and anyone willing to do that would probably be willing to run PiHole for free instead. [0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2514#issuecommen... [1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2515#issuecommen... [2]…
    comment by hunter2_ · 2024-05-13 · in Ask HN: Why isn't there a commercial Pi-Hole product?
  25. I don't have this issue because I dump an extensive deny list of hosts into my /etc/hosts file from https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by fouc · 2023-12-27 · in Reindeer sleep and eat simultaneously
  26. While it is now unblocked, the Steven Black list has been blocking a lot of innocent CDNs. jQuery: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2520 (twice): https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2516 cookielaw:…
    comment by LeoPanthera · 2023-12-07 · in Steven Black DNS blocklist blocked gstatic.com
  27. How does this compare to using a hosts file with known ad servers? like: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by acl777 · 2023-12-05 · in System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and Linux
  28. I use the Hosts file to block a ton of ads and that works really well. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Something worth considering if your ad blocker isn't working well.
    comment by snow_mac · 2023-11-19 · in Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
  29. Perhaps this will help... https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/pull/2461
    comment by pcl · 2023-09-27 · in Radar Maps Platform
  30. …is on the block list since January 2020. The commit's comment is "major update from adaway.org" https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts/commit/4fa0470
    comment by whynotmaybe · 2023-09-27 · in Radar Maps Platform
  31. …not enough, take a look at [3] for more details. [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home [2] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts [3] https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/04/layered-content-blocking...
    comment by akyuu · 2023-09-01 · in Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't
  32. …we block ads at the operating system level instead at the browser level? sure, we do that, too: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by hjek · 2023-08-22 · in uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
  33. hosts file aggregator last updated: August 17 2023 : https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts current 'unique porn domains' = 53,644 current adware, malware, tracking, etc. = 210,425 unique domains
    comment by archo · 2023-08-20 · in Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains
  34. …well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories. | https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by dbg31415 · 2023-06-27 · in Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
  35. hosts file (modified) sourced from; Steven-Black - hosts @GitHub : https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts cat /etc/hosts |grep -i 'jsonip.com' 0.0.0.0 jsonip.com 0.0.0.0 www.jsonip.com
    comment by News-Dog · 2023-05-28 · in 418 I'm a teapot
  36. Sure is! Just modify your hosts table. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by dbg31415 · 2023-05-18 · in Seven.zip
  37. …Steven Black adblock host list [0] for some time now on all my PCs and it works extremely well. [0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by jsrcout · 2023-04-23 · in The largest number representable in 64 bits
  38. …well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories. || https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts (And if you block things at the host level, remember to disable DNS Caching.) * How to disable Windows…
    comment by dbg31415 · 2023-04-02 · in The day Windows died
  39. …I block ads (since those can take him to sites he doesn't need to be on), and I block fake news. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts 2) I sit down with him once a month and delete people on his Facebook account. I want to delete the whole…
    comment by dbg31415 · 2023-04-02 · in Ask HN: How do I keep my elderly father safe on the internet?
  40. …been mentioned in this thread, a good hostfile can both block ads and speed up your internet. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by wardedVibe · 2023-02-24 · in The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web
  41. Steven Black runs a hosts file on GitHub with regular updates. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts There are a bunch of file variants to weed out specific bad actors. It's well currated though I will disclaimer it has broken a few…
    comment by eurticket · 2023-02-23 · in The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web
  42. get https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts
    comment by anthk · 2023-02-08 · in Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control
  43. …GB of ZRAM. Atom n270 netbook, go figure. Also, run this to get a system wide adblocker: git clone https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts cd hosts sed -n '/Start Steven/,$p' < hosts > hosts.append sudo cat hosts.append >> /etc/hosts EDIT:…
    comment by anthk · 2023-02-04 · in De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM
  44. vimb + disable DNS prefetching + https://github.com/stevenblack/hosts
    comment by anthk · 2022-12-25 · in Tridactyl: A Vim-like interface for Firefox
  45. …It's making me actively look for alternatives. (1) https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 (2) https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts (3) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/47441/ho...
    comment by dbg31415 · 2022-12-18 · in Windows 11 update added 'Search' label to taskbar search button – how to remove?
  46. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by wardedVibe · 2022-12-14 · in After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to being millionaires
  47. …DNS-level adblocking outside of one's local network. It's the default block list in Pi-Hole. [0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
    comment by ikinsey · 2022-11-29 · in An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole
  48. And we request removal as and where we can. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/1781 Unfortunately mvps.org no longer seems to reply to emails.
    comment by tylerhannan · 2022-10-04 · in ClickHouse Cloud is now in Public Beta
  49. Steven-Black - hosts - GitHub : https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Pull all the (URL)s for Instagram from the lists.
    comment by Trouble_007 · 2022-09-29 · in Ask HN: How to block Instagram via Router (OpenDNS)
  50. …Adding blockers to the hosts table still works with Chrome... hope they don't muck with that... https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts But if they do... there are always DNS solutions you can add to your Router. https://nextdns.io/ I use…
    comment by dbg31415 · 2022-09-24 · in Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers