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Hosts File#

Use one of these hosts files instead of using an adblock plugin since it's faster and covers all applications (not just a single web browser).

Installation#

1. Download the respective hosts file you wish to use.
2. Change into the directory you have downloaded the file to and open a terminal in that directory.

3. Execute the command sudo mv hosts /etc/hosts to overwrite your current hosts file.

   Note

   Unless you have manually edited the file in the past you do not have to worry about overwriting it. The new downloaded hosts file contains all but one default entries. If you have any custom entries, make sure to create a backup of your current hosts file and to add the past entries to the new one.

4. Check your current hostname by executing the command hostname.

5. Execute the command sudo vim /etc/hosts and add the line 127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME to where all the other 127.0.0.1 entries are. The placeholder HOSTNAME being the result of your command execution in step 4. If you do not do this some applications might not work as intented and the password check of sudo will be quite slow.

   Example

   The result of my hostname execution is elsenm-desktop, so I will add the following line to my /etc/hosts file:

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   ... 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain 127.0.0.1 local 127.0.0.1 elsenm-desktop 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost ::1 localhost ::1 ip6-localhost ::1 ip6-loopback ...