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Whoa, such a simple and effective method by overriding the hosts file. Any idea how this file is kept up-to-date? Presumably new endpoints are constantly being rolled out; I wonder how the author of this file discovers the new hosts.

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I've set up a cronjob to pull the latest hosts file from Steven's aggregated list

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

A couple months ago I put together a Docker image for just this. It's based on dnsmasq and Steven Black's hosts list, and it automatically updates the list daily: https://github.com/schmich/purify

I run it on a cheap Digital Ocean machine, and my home router is setup to forward all DNS traffic to it. Any connected clients, phones included, automatically get the blocking capability.

You can email them new stuff and they add it pretty quickly to the list. I have sent in about 20 domains that are mostly mackeeper related and they get added within a few days. The person that cares is really nice and seems to appreciate the help.

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