Albin Jose to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish • 1 year agoWhich is the best adblocking hostfile that has less false positives for a normal user ?message-square9fedilinkarrow-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 • 1 year agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareL3ft_F13ld!linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoNever really tried the hostsfile approach. Why is it slower?
minus-square@Supermariofan67@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year 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•1 year 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
Then what is the solution for you?
I use ublock Origin everywhere and started using Pi-hole as well.