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Robby :nixos:

I blocked several domains in my /etc/hosts file a few days ago. So far the only difference with my daily browsing I have noticed is that captchas fail to show up.

I've been getting around that by using for pages that require me to use captchas.

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Robby :nixos:

@eludom I actually just set the domains to point to localhost using /etc/hosts

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George Jones :emacs: :orgmode:

@Zambyte what system are you on? How is resolution set up?

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Robby :nixos:

@eludom I'm on NixOS. I just added `networking.extraHosts = ...` in my configuration.nix file. The string you assign that value to basically just gets added to your /etc/hosts file.

By pointing domains that I don't want to connect with to localhost, the service will immediately fail to connect, since I'm not hosting a web server on my machine.

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~robby

@eludom Btw I just tried to use /etc/hosts.deny; apparently it is only for blocking inbound connections. It wont block connections you try to make to the service.

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George Jones :emacs: :orgmode:

@robby yeah, /etc/hosts.deny is old school proto firewall based originally on inetd. Not sure if it even works in the deadly embrace of systemd.

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