[trash_panda]

A good solution I've found for ad blocking is using the following hosts file:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Which sinkholes every known ad/malicious domain. It's been pretty useful, and it hasn't broken nothing important yet.

[__s]

I've been using http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm anyone know how they compare?

(reading github description, seems it includes this as a source, but also others)

[trash_panda]

A quick line count shows that the file from your link has 14354 entries, while the one on the github repo has 65357.

[dghughes]

My brain read that as 65537.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Well, people like nice, round numbers:)