[bru]

I switched from ABP to this hosts file a few months ago and I have zero regret. My browser's faster, lighter and ads are blocked just as well as with ABP.

I actually even started splitting my hosts file: the layout is

    /etc/hosts                ('compiled' version)
    /etc/hosts.d/
    /etc/hosts.d/aaa-warning  (warning reminding me to run `update-hosts` instead of modifying /etc/hosts. Appears atop the compiled file)
    /etc/hosts.d/adblock      (that website's hosts file)
    /etc/hosts.d/base         (original system hosts file)
    /etc/hosts.d/dolead       (work-related file for development)

And I have the following functions in my .bashrc file:

    function update-hosts() {
        cat /etc/hosts.d/* > /etc/hosts;
    }

    function update-adblock() {
        curl http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts -o /etc/hosts.d/adblock 2> /dev/null
        update-hosts
    }

So if I want to update "adblock" (it is obviously an improper name) I simply do `sudo update-adblock` and if I change another file (mostly `/etc/hosts.d/dolead`) I'll just run `sudo update-hosts`.

Works wonders.

[migbac]

I made a simple script that merges, and removes duplicates from different sources: https://gist.github.com/louima/878171fc67d797cfcef4

[pid1]

Interesting and thanks for sharing. I've been using https://gaenserich.github.io/hostsblock/

[barrkel]

Most of my adblock stuff is CSS based. I use element hiding helper to figure out which bits to kill. I have hundreds of these custom rules.

[walls]

To be pedantic: That's not blocking, it's just hiding. They have vastly different implications.

[spyder]

To be pedantic: It's blocking from displaying it but not from the downloading.

[userbinator]

If you want to pull hosts files from multiple sources, you may want to consider sort'ing and uniq'ing to remove duplicates.

[TarpitCarnivore]

Have you been able to block stuff like Tynt, and other copy/paste triggered JS stuff?

[bru]

I was not aware of Tynt, but I believe it's well blocked.

I just looked at the adblock-hosts file, and 'tynt' appears several times. One of those lines is commented with a link to an article about tynt[0]. I tried copy-pasting from The New Yorker and TechCrunch (who, as claimed by the author of the article, use tynt), and both times there was no crap appended.

0: http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks

[TarpitCarnivore]

Thanks, I may try this out and see if I can move over my few custom blocked sites that implement this stuff.

[eli]

http://www.tynt.com/opt_out