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Updated Counterarguments (markdown)

Raymond Hill 2014-08-24 05:42:15 -07:00
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µBlock supports the parsing/enforcing of hosts files, and ships with a couple of them. One of them, _"Peter Lowe’s Ad server list"_ is enabled out of the box.
Using a hosts file at OS level is definitely the best solution for lists of malware domain, since these malware-linked domains would be blocked system-wide at OS level, and all applications would benefit from it. A problem though is that for the average user, this is rather technical, and even more so when factoring the regular update of such lists at OS level.
Using a hosts file at OS level rather than µBlock level is definitely the better solution for lists of malware domain, since these malware-linked domains would be blocked system-wide at OS level, and all applications would benefit from it.
However, for lists of domain linked to ad servers, trackers, analytics, etc., this is not a good solution: **You can't easily un-break web pages with a [hosts file](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)) at OS level.**