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🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

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README

[!IMPORTANT] Cloning this repository can take a long time! You probably just want to start with the latest version, not its whole history since 2018. Therefore you probably want to use git clone --depth 1 ... to save significant time.

[!NOTE] With the exception of issues and PRs regarding changes to hosts/data/StevenBlack/hosts, all other issues regarding the content of the produced hosts files should be made with the appropriate data source that contributed the content in question. The contact information for all of the data sources can be found in the hosts/data/ directory.


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Unified hosts file with base extensions

This repository consolidates several reputable hosts files, and merges them into a unified hosts file with duplicates removed. A variety of tailored hosts files are provided.

Therefore this repository is a hosts file aggregator.

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List of all hosts file variants

This repository offers 31 different host file variants, in addition to the base variant, with and without the unified hosts included.

The Non GitHub mirror is the link to use for some hosts file managers like Hostsman for Windows that don't work with GitHub download links.

| Host file recipe | Readme | Raw hosts | Unique domains | Non GitHub mirror | | ---------------- | :----: | :-------: | :------------: | :---------------: | Unified hosts = (adware + malware) | Readme | link | 81,934 | link Unified hosts + fakenews | Readme | link | 85,160 | link fakenews | Readme | link | 2,188 | link Unified hosts + gambling | Readme | link | 88,896 | link gambling | Readme | link | 5,936 | link Unified hosts + porn | Readme | link | 158,762 | link porn | Readme | link | 76,509 | link Unified hosts + social | Readme | link | 86,186 | link social | Readme | link | 3,243 | link Unified hosts + fakenews + gambling | Readme | link | 91,084 | link fakenews + gambling | Readme | link | 8,130 | link Unified hosts + fakenews + porn | Readme | link | 160,950 | link fakenews + porn | Readme | link | 78,703 | link Unified hosts + fakenews + social | Readme | link | 88,374 | link fakenews + social | Readme | link | 5,437 | link Unified hosts + gambling + porn | Readme | link | 164,686 | link gambling + porn | Readme | link | 82,445 | link Unified hosts + gambling + social | Readme | link | 92,110 | link gambling + social | Readme | link | 9,179 | link Unified hosts + porn + social | Readme | link | 161,974 | link porn + social | Readme | link | 79,750 | link Unified hosts + fakenews + gambling + porn | Readme | link | 166,874 | link fakenews + gambling + porn | Readme | link | 84,639 | link Unified hosts **+ fakenews + gambl

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GitHub Stars30.1k
CategoryMarketing
Updated3h ago
Forks2.4k

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Python

Security Score

100/100

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