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No offense to the author or OP, but I think most people on HN know that you can use your hosts file for adblocking. It's not something I like to do because it's not very flexible, especially if some sites block ad-blocking users.

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Agreed. If ABP starts sucking, someone will make a not horrible version which lets you turn it on and off. I'm not editing a hosts file each time a streaming video doesn't work.

http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman

A decent hosts file manager.

Apparently someonewhocares does not work with it.

I wrote the post thinking about the not-so-expert users, it may be some help for them :)

By reading through it, it helps everyone stay "on their toes" about who the shitheads are, too. So, yeah, thanks for your submission!

shitheads?

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