Which is the best adblocking hostfile that has less false positives for a normal user ?

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sir_reginald@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y

default uBlock Origin. default lists are constantly updated to avoid breakage

Supermariofan67@programming.dev · 9 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I'm pretty happy with https://oisd.nl. There's so StevenBlack's hosts file if you want something smaller.

Use them in pihole, or add to ublock origin in addition to the normal lists. I'm assuming you don't mean using it as a literal hosts file (which has severe performance problems with lookups on large files)

Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Never really tried the hostsfile approach. Why is it slower?

Supermariofan67@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y

It's a lookup in a static text file, rather than a database which is optimized and structured for quickly querying an item from a list of millions of entries

Alby003@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Then what is the solution for you?

Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org · 2 pts · 2y

I use ublock Origin everywhere and started using Pi-hole as well.

TheQuickHedgehog@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

A dns blocklist? I use hagezi

Alby003@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 2y

I heard about it. It has very less False & positives

ScrambleVerdict@monyet.cc · 1 pts · 2y
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