Hi Bill, Am Montag 31 August 2020 schrieb William Morder via trinity-users: > I do know that I see a big difference between using a customized > hosts file instead of (only) depending on ad-blockers. As soon as I > overwrite the hosts file with my list, I find that my system is more > stable. It's not only the ads that get blocked, it seems, but also > other unwanted connections. Sure, that's what I want as well :-) I'm using a huge /etc/hosts as well, but only with 0.0.0.0 so all requests from unwanted domains get send to nowhere without my system (localhost) trying to serve them before. The purpose of using 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, AIUI, is to make the web server on localhost show some substitute page/image/whatever to indicate something has been blocked. If you don't have a web server running on localhost and configured to serve such requests it doesn't make sense to put 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts to my understanding. HTH Kind regards, Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
