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    From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to comp.security.misc,comp.internet.services.google,comp.misc,alt.privacy on Fri Feb 1 11:48:07 2019
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    Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

    On 2019-02-01, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
    Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

    [...] [Subject amended]

    Get a PiHole.

    <https://pi-hole.net/>


    Is that better than a hosts file such as is offered by MVPS? <https://mvpshostsnews.blogspot.com>
    I find it works well, is easy to set up and needs no extra hardware.


    I'll let you know definitively soon, since my PiHole hardware arrived
    a couple of days ago, and I already run a fairly large hosts file (incorporating the MVPS one), presently [tap, tap, tap] some 18,000
    hosts. The PiHole one is larger and it has the ability to blackhole
    entire domains, without having to add individual machines, saving
    pain like having to add;

    0.0.0.0 a.spammingfucks.com
    0.0.0.0 b.spammingfucks.com
    0.0.0.0 c.spammingfucks.com
    0.0.0.0 d.spammingfucks.com
    0.0.0.0 e.spammingfucks.com

    And so on. Also, the PiHoles lists are automatically updated, saving
    me having to do it.


    I look forward to hearing about it, I could do with a
    nice little project. I did think about doing something
    similar on my Synology router but eventually decided
    that discretion was the better part of valour when
    fiddling with something so central to the network that
    my better half relies on...

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