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StevenBlack / hosts

hosts

🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

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244Mentions
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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

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Where it is used

The last source check was inconclusive. This does not establish whether a product uses it.

What people are saying

I am in the exact same boat. And lately it's the same sort of shit... My dad will get a text message on Facebook from a "friend" (usually a dead friend) and it'll say something…

dbg31415 used a recommendation phrase. 6 indexed comments match. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:01:16 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year244 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-02-22 16:12:14 UTC to 2026-10-07 09:41:56 UTC.

0102030402013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 38 mentions; 2 submissions, 36 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 2 submissions, 16 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 28 mentions; 1 submissions, 27 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 41 mentions; 2 submissions, 39 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 27 mentions; 2 submissions, 25 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 2 submissions, 19 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 19 mentions; 4 submissions, 15 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 22 mentions; 3 submissions, 19 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 0 submissions, 11 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC38236
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18216
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC28127
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC41239
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC27225
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21219
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC19415
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC22319
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11011
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606

What Hacker News says

11 sources
dbg31415·Nov 20, 2025
I work right at the junction of marketing tech -- eCommerce, marketing sites, account management systems. Theoretically I should be living in compliance hell, but here's the dirty secret: To "follow" every rule, all you really need is another layer of UX friction. Another modal. Another "consent wizard." A few toggles buried under Manage Settings → Advanced → Optional → Something You'll Never Click → Opt Me Out. If you want to be sneaky, add a dark pattern. Make "yes" mean "no." Delay the buttons loading behind some animation, while showing other buttons from the start. (Users will always mash the first one that looks vaguely like "close" without reading anything.) Or just bribe them, "Get 200 extra points for opting in! Only 45,000 more to redeem a free small drink!" Congratulations -- you're now "compliant. In practice, GDPR mostly resu
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lts in one more click. That's the whole impact. A seemingly smart privacy law reduced to just an annoyance tax. (This is a big reason I run Firefox with uBlock Origin, and NextDNS on my router and phone, with Steven Black's block list. Ha. I do value my privacy, and the more ads and trackers you can block the better shot you'll have at keeping some of it. At least until you go and do something stupid like join a social network or messenger app, or start clicking accept to get 200 extra points.) * StevenBlack/hosts: Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories. // https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts * NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet // https://nextdns.io/ * uBlock Origin – Get this Extension for Firefox (en-US) // https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
In Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
dbg31415·Mar 10, 2025
uBlock Origin still works in Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... And you can, I believe, still just modify your hosts table to block out ads in Chrome. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Or your router's DNS using something like NextDNS. https://nextdns.io/ Ads suck. Support content where you can, but even when you pay they still serve ads / tracking scripts. So fuck 'em. Block all the ads.
In uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
troyvit·Jan 15, 2025
You could get a step closer to that and integrate it into your DNS: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts The upside is that it would go beyond your browser to anything on your machine that makes a DNS request. > Another great function (not for this plugin) should be the option to "bundle" all search results from the same domain. Stuff them under one collapsible entry. That would be really cool. Just zip it up if you don't want to see that domain for that specific search.
In Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results

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