StevenBlack/hosts
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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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One can achieve this locally, on a laptop/desktop, using https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Or you can combine that with https://github.com/jlund/streisand to have a VPN service that happens to adblock (great for mobile). That said... I…
comment by buro9 · 2016-07-29 · in Optimal DNS Ad Blocker -
…wide DNS server for ad blocking which I supplement with a bunch of privacy/security lists from https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts . 5% of my traffic was blocked today which is heaps considering it's counting mountains of requests to eg…
comment by benologist · 2016-07-23 · in My Raspberry Pi cluster -
…most egregious advertisers to 127.0.0.1 via DNS lookup? Does that count as an "ad blocker"? See: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ Someone told me it was pretty effective to do this.
comment by bediger4000 · 2016-06-24 · in AdBlock Plus Now Illegal in Germany -
Not sure if this list is included here, but here's something a friend has used: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
comment by isxek · 2016-05-28 · in Blocklist of all Facebook domains -
…and it works surprisingly well - even the ads on my Xbox One dashboard are blocked. [1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
comment by stordoff · 2016-05-27 · in Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites -
this does the trick: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts.git
comment by DyslexicAtheist · 2016-05-27 · in Facebook will show ads to non-Facebook users on other websites -
I'm using https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts and wired is non-functional for me.
comment by daveloyall · 2016-05-20 · in Project Ara Lives: Google's Modular Phone -
There's this GitHub repo with host files setups for exactly this need : https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
comment by Raphmedia · 2016-05-03 · in AdBlock Plus teams up with Flattr to help readers pay publishers -
…servers, I feel even better that I'm blocking all of these ad servers with my /etc/hosts file using https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts . The update will be a no-op from my machine.
comment by joeblau · 2016-04-25 · in Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics -
Not on my computer: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
comment by andreis_ · 2016-04-25 · in Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics -
…the unnecessary cat command: grep -v '#' steves_hosts | awk '{print $1}'| sort | uniq -c [1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5264955
comment by miles · 2016-04-08 · in Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up Malware 'Ads' -
…I just leave. If the article is that important, some other outlet will cover the news. [1] - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
comment by joeblau · 2016-04-08 · in Forbes Site, After Begging You Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up Malware 'Ads' -
seems to work OK with uBlock EDIT: i forgot that I also use https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts so it might be either uBlock or the hosts file that kills adblock in my case not sure
comment by DyslexicAtheist · 2016-03-30 · in Middle-School Dropout Codes Clever Chat Program That Foils NSA Spying (2014) -
I could not click the sign up button until I removed this https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts from my hosts file. I guess some advertising infrastructure is used on google's page. (Not that I want to sign up for this, I was just curious…
comment by daveloyall · 2016-03-23 · in TensorFlow as a Service -
This is DNS server version of the excellent host blocking rule maintained here: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts This was setup in mainly to stop my android loading ads all the time. This is no way standards compliant (for starters, it…
comment by dbalan · 2016-02-22 · in Show HN: DNS server with ad sites blocked -
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/data/Steven... https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/data/adaway... https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/data/malwar...
comment by RKearney · 2016-02-13 · in Adblock via /etc/hosts -
…are running a script ( https://github.com/Kolyunya/afdns ) that pulls the hosts file daily from ( https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts ). It has been working great for a few weeks, but I'm curious about any improvements I could provide.
comment by o_s_m · 2016-02-13 · in Adblock via /etc/hosts -
…at [1], the only entries I can find for 127.0.0.1 are for localhost or are commented out [1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/hosts
comment by stordoff · 2016-02-12 · in Adblock via /etc/hosts -
Its in the repo's readme: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts#why-use-0000-instead-of...
comment by Goopplesoft · 2016-02-12 · in Adblock via /etc/hosts -
…support. [1] http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ [2] http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm [3] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
comment by laumars · 2015-11-17 · in Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addresses -
I recommend you check out StevenBlack's Amalgamated hosts file: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Currently the hosts files from the following locations are amalgamated: MVPs.org Hosts file at http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm,…
comment by arh68 · 2015-08-10 · in Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use -
…and de-dupes recent hosts files from mvps.org, someonewhocares.org, and malwaredomainlist.com. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
comment by stblack · 2013-02-22 · in Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much