A guide on how to completely block Fb and other companies

General Privacy & Security
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I do it differently by adding lines like this in /etc/hosts :
127.0.0.1 facebook.net
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 fbsv.net
127.0.0.1 tfbnw.net
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net
…

Your way:

  • Is much more complex, but goes much more deeper and is much more complete :+1:
  • automatic update getting new IPs linked to new domain names, but then depend on a third party

For ease of use, you could add the setuid bit to your scripts:

chown root blockfacebook allowfacebook 
chmod u+s blockfacebook allowfacebook

so you won’t have to sudo every time you want to block or allow the company
if you do this, put the full path for all piped programs in your scripts, or unalias

my 2 cents :wink:

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