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		dredmorbius on Feb 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adblock via /etc/hosts My Linux system runs a 60k+ /etc/hosts files, plus dnsmasq for local resolution. Nice thing about dnsmasq is that it treats domain-level entries as domain-level assignments. No measurable lag. I'd used the various blockfiles used by uBlock Origin, as well as some additional entries of my own, de-duplicated. There are some overaggressive entries, I've commented those. A nice plus: I found the dozen or so hosts/domains associated with autoplay video crap, added them, and have no more bother from that.

rasz_pl on Feb 12, 2016 [–]

At the beginning (2006) dnsmasq used very naive O(n^2) /hosts parsing procedure. I was the first person ever to attempt using dnsmasq to block ads :-)

http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/200...

dredmorbius on Feb 13, 2016 | [–]

Sweet. And if you had anything to do with the performance improvements, thank you very much.

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