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Hosts file are a useful redundancy when coupled with ad blockers like uBlock Origin and uMatrix - while debugging or 'Temporarily Allow All on this Site' with Noscript can open you up to underlying attacks or privacy intrusions.

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Great idea and approach for protecting privacy.

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What is Auto Hosts?

Hosts file are a useful redundancy when coupled with ad blockers like uBlock Origin and uMatrix - while debugging or 'Temporarily Allow All on this Site' with Noscript can open you up to underlying attacks or privacy intrusions.

In-browser filters won't protect you if the browser itself is phoning home.

If you have an up-to-date hosts file, the risk is severely lessened.

Auto Hosts will automate the setup process for maintaining an up to date hosts file, by:

  • Installing a weekly cronjob to pull a copy of Steven Black's Host file (default is every Sunday at 7:22pm)
  • Appends Facebook trackers, Linkedin ads, Google fonts, Firefox telemetry and other harvester sites that curated lists for whatever reason, have not added to their blacklists
  • Refreshes DNS to instantiate the re-routed changes (Mac Only)
  • If Devdom is installed, append all local virtualhosts

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