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by bathyspheric 3391 days ago
> Edge was disqualified because it seemed to bypass the hosts file and wouldn’t load pages from unique domains. I can do measurements so I might revisit this, but it wouldn’t have been a fair comparison as-is.

Is it surprising that Edge might bypass the hosts file?

It surprises me, as I thought all outgoing requests were routed through `/etc/hosts` or equiv, but I don't spend too much time in Windows these days.

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Huh, mine respects my hosts. That's how I set up adblocking before they brought extensions in.