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Updated Counterarguments (markdown)

Raymond Hill 2014-08-24 05:38:05 -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 not a single net request would ever reach such remote server.
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.
However, for lists of domain linked to ad servers, trackers, analytics, etc., this is not a good solution: You can't un-break web pages with a [hosts file](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)) at OS level.