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20th August 2012, 13:49 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| You can’t block Facebook using Windows 8′s hosts file While you can still add any host you want to the hosts file and map it to an IP, you will notice that some of the mappings will get reset once you open an Internet browser. If you only save, close and re-open the hosts file you will still see the new mappings in the the file, but once you open a web browser, some of them are removed automatically from the hosts file. Two of the sites that you can’t block using the hosts file are facebook.com and ad.doubleclick.net, the former the most popular social networking site, the second a popular ad serving domain. The strange thing is that even write protecting the file does not have an effect on it as entries are still removed once you open a web browser. Actually, any kind of Internet connection seems to be enough for that behavior. If you open the Windows Store for instance, the entries get removed as well automatically. http://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/19/you...8s-hosts-file/
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| solution: http://www.howtogeek.com/122404/how-...8s-hosts-file/ Quote:
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