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1. #HOW TO BLOCK ADOBE CC ACTIVATION USING HOST FILE HOW TO#
2. #HOW TO BLOCK ADOBE CC ACTIVATION USING HOST FILE UPDATE#
3. #HOW TO BLOCK ADOBE CC ACTIVATION USING HOST FILE FULL#
4. #HOW TO BLOCK ADOBE CC ACTIVATION USING HOST FILE WINDOWS#

Try it for yourself, and tell me what you think! It doesn’t completely replace an AdBlocker (or I haven’t aggregated enough files yet) but it’s an incredible performance gain, which I highly recommend for everyday browsing. I’m well aware that tweaking its own hosts file is a good but technical solution. Whenever I need to use someone else’s computer, or temporarily disable my hosts file, I realize the level of comfort it provides me.

I have been using this technique for years now and, sometimes, I forget that my hosts file protects me so much. * * * * * if then /usr/local/bin/noti -t "Host file" -m "does not exists" fi To enable or disable my hosts file, I use a command line function that I’ve develop and put in my ~/.profile file: : Actually, I put this function in my ~/.zprofile, as I use Oh My ZSH. For example, when I need to help Dareboost clients understand the impact of third-party scripts on their pages (thus, I need to load these 3ps myself). Sometimes, I need to temporaly disable this hosts file.

#HOW TO BLOCK ADOBE CC ACTIVATION USING HOST FILE UPDATE#

You can manage Update Sources in hostsman Some tips from my daily life On Linux, I’ve heard people talk about using dnscrypt-proxy… but I’ve never tried myself.

#HOW TO BLOCK ADOBE CC ACTIVATION USING HOST FILE WINDOWS#

I will not recommend modifying your host file on previous versions of Windows even if I did it, before 2015 (FR), unless you like to run ipconfig /flushdns every 30 minutes. If you’re not familiar with the command line and use Windows 10, the hostsman app will help you achieve the same goal ( unfortunately, as I just published the post, the website looks down. In case you’re wondering, I can and do alter the result with my own accept list (otherwise blocked domains whose requests I don’t want to prevent) and redirections (which allows me to write this article and check the result on, which actually points to my own machine). I use Steven Black’s “hosts” project, a python script, to cram them into a single 2MB hosts file containing more than 70k domains. Fake news websites, gaming platforms, pornographic hubs, encryption pages, fraud attempts, and scams are all patiently identified and listed in open access files. Cool people have been doing this for years, sharing their host files. There is nothing new in what I am describing here. So basically, if someone makes a list of all the domains where bad things happen, we can redirect them all to 0.0.0.0 in our hosts file, and make our own Web a much cooler place. Easy peasy, throw it on the wrong track by associating the domain to an unspecified address like 0.0.0.0. Now, let’s say that you don’t want this process to find the resource on the domain. Every time a process on your computer needs to access a resource on the Internet, it first goes through the hosts file to find out where to find it. Most of the time, I’ve collected the address of the people to whom I want to write in my personal address book. I don’t know about you, but I never use a phone book.

And the phone book, called a DNS, resolves the IP address for the browser. How does your browser know which IP address to contact? Well, the browser simply asks the Internet phone book. Now think about accessing a webpage, like. Whenever your browser interacts with a website, it actually requests a server, located through its IP address, like 185.31.40.11 (IPv4) or 2a00:b6e0:1:20:2::1 (IPv6). The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses. The AdBlockers can’t do anything about that. Yes, I’m talking about you, you naughty boy). Sometimes, you can even see the ads displayed in your UI ( Hello, Skype.

Most mainstream applications are as crammed with trackers as your next media website. The Web is requested from everywhere in your computer. But the web is not confined to your browser, is it? Some are doing better than others, and whole browsers 1 have been conceived over the idea of blocking unwanted content, and are doing an incredible job. They often increase the amount of memory and CPU cycles used by your web browser, slowing your browsing experience instead of boosting it. Unfortunately, as for the UX, AdBlockers don’t deliver. They offer a quick and simple solution (most of the time, a browser extension) that blocks most of the unwanted content.

#HOW TO BLOCK ADOBE CC ACTIVATION USING HOST FILE FULL#

Most sites are full of trackers, ads, and lots of other nasty stuff penalizing websites’ loading. I lacked inspiration to find a nicer illustration…. In that case, my answer is always the same: the lowest hanging fruit is most certainly the hosts file.

#HOW TO BLOCK ADOBE CC ACTIVATION USING HOST FILE HOW TO#

Sometimes, they also ask me how to improve the Web’s performance on their own machine, for their own browsing experience. As a field expert, people often ask me how to improve websites’ performance.