Albin Jose to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish • 8 months agoWhich is the best adblocking hostfile that has less false positives for a normal user ?message-square7arrow-up123arrow-down10
arrow-up123arrow-down1message-squareWhich is the best adblocking hostfile that has less false positives for a normal user ?Albin Jose to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square7
minus-squareL3ft_F13ld!linkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoNever really tried the hostsfile approach. Why is it slower?
minus-square@Supermariofan67@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoIt’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
minus-squareL3ft_F13ld!linkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoI use ublock Origin everywhere and started using Pi-hole as well.
Never really tried the hostsfile approach. Why is it slower?
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
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I use ublock Origin everywhere and started using Pi-hole as well.