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		yareally on March 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- a... Host blocking at the OS level. No need for extensions.

dest on March 5, 2018 [–]

Sometimes you need to temporary disable filters or edit them. How do you manage that? Is it user-friendly?

yareally on March 5, 2018 | [–]

Never ran into a problem really. Maybe a couple times a year I'll manually open the host file and ctrl+f a host I need to comment out temporarily after seeing it's causing an issue via the browser's network tools.

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