i am also using one of the huge anti-ad list of entries, and a nice collection of warez-releated blocks in addition would be very welcome.

 

this community is wonderful

 

begin with the ones stated in this thread.read nfo and comments to ad new ones , for the ''hidden'' ones like eg
userarea.d16.pl or
virtual.gudaaudio.com

 

I'm using rather long list actually
https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php

 

Here's mine

Code:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1    localhost
255.255.255.255    broadcasthost
::1             localhost
127.0.0.1 www.r2rdownload.net
127.0.0.1 www.elephantafiles.com
127.0.0.1 www.r2rdownload.com
127.0.0.1 support.vengeance-sound.com
127.0.0.1 vengeance-sound.com
127.0.0.1  api.wondershare.com
127.0.0.1  wondershare.cn.edgesuite.net
127.0.0.1  wondershare.cn.edgesuite.net
127.0.0.1  platform.wondershare.com
127.0.0.1  macplatform.wondershare.com
127.0.0.1  cbs.wondershare.com
127.0.0.1  us.wondershare.com
127.0.0.1  download.wondershare.com
127.0.0.1  ori-myphone-download.wondershare.cc
127.0.0.1 my.wondershare.com
127.0.0.1 resource.wondershare.com
127.0.0.1 services.celemony.com
127.0.0.1 www.overloud.com
127.0.0.1 wyday.com
127.0.0.1 ec2-52-42-114-201.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
127.0.0.1 ec2-52-70-136-170.compute-1.amazonaws.com
127.0.0.1 refx.com127.0.0.1 web.refx.com
127.0.0.1 web.refx.com
127.0.0.1 ec2-52-70-136-170.compute-1.amazonaws.com
127.0.0.1 ec2-54-70-136-156.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
127.0.0.1 ec2-52-42-114-201.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

 

Could I copy your porn pages?
I mean .. to add to my host file or whatever.

 

indeed its not slowing down it rather speeds up www

 

Damn you should say what you are not blocking. LOL

 

https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/index.php
very interstings its adblock plus list dan's lists ae ublock og lists

aehm no , its short
look

https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

shows again that ublock og is better than adblock plus

 

this sites called audioSEX, audioSQUARES and audioPRUDES died out long ago

 

What are people views in this:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Is it the complete motherlode of hosts, or does it miss some ?

 

Once I read somewhere on forum that stuff from MS listed in hosts file is not really blocked and they might bypass their own websites/servers somehow, but this needs to be confirmed.

//
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2641599

... starting in XP Pro SP2 and W2K3 SP1, various Microsoft-related URLs cannot be bypassed by placing alternate IP addresses in the Windows hosts file. It appears to be a strategy by Microsoft to not allow malicious host file changes to stop Microsoft patch updates, plus hardcoding a few other Microsoft URLs.

This bypass affects the following urls:

• windowsupdate.microsoft.com
• windowsupdate.com
• microsoftupdate.com
• download.microsoft.com
• update.microsoft.com
• microsoft.com
• www.microsoft.com
• support.microsoft.com
• wustats.microsoft.com
• microsoftupdate.microsoft.com
• office.microsoft.com
• msdn.microsoft.com
• go.microsoft.com
• msn.com
• www.msn.com
• msdn.com
• www.msdn.com

This is pretty old, but we might suspect that telemetry servers might be also included these days.

 

I also read about it. It seems very likely to be true at the Windows Firewall service too.

There's an entire debate on if it also affects the BFE (Base Filtering Engine) which is kind of the base service. For instance, Windows Firewall depends on this.

That's why was developed SimpleWall. A simple but powerful Firewall that only relies on the BFE with additional options. Too bad is recently discontinued.

 

Wow, yeah.
Be careful though.
It blocked spam and it blocked all the porn but it also blocked sister site and blocked me from here and uninstalled my LAN driver and unplugged my router and locked all the doors in my house and my wife refuses to have sex with me.

OK maybe it just blocked the spam and the rest is my own fault.

 

TBH I haven't trawled back from the start of this but what about the 'someonewhocares.org' big file ?

 

I have a better list for blocking adobe, since I fought with Adobe Acrobat long time ...

 

Hey guys,

The best tip...
...I got lately (if I remember right it was an AZ fellow*) is replacing 127.0.0.1 with 0.0.0.0
If you use 127.0.0.0 Windows tries to find the local host and that takes a (small) amount of time, lets say 1/4 second.

If you have - like me - a HOSTS file with a longer list of IPs to be blocked this builds up to several seconds. And THAT you will feel when you start Programs using blocked IPs.

But if you take 0.0.0.0 instead, programs wil start instantaneously without looking some seconds for the lokal host.

So stop using 127.0.0.0 but use 0.0.0.0 instead! Same function just 10x quicker


* Oh, yes. The tip comes from @Haliax and he deserves a best answer for it.

 

Last edited: Oct 17, 2021