Batu69 Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 To Completely Block Facebook Add these entries below to your hosts file Your hosts file Location: Linux, Unix and Mac OS X -> /etc/hosts Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 -> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Windows 2000 -> C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Windows 98/ME -> C:\WINDOWS\hosts You can edit the hosts file with any text editor On Windows 7, the default AV security scan will try to remove the facebook.com entry; you'll need to add an exception to tell the OS to keep the block listing in the hosts file and not to remove it Facebook blocklist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbada Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Is this in any relation to anything about facebook lately? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrbingStorm Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 1 hour ago, bubbada said: Is this in any relation to anything about facebook lately? It could be that facebook has decided to track everyone now even if you don't have an account with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rok Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 12 hours ago, Batu69 said: To Completely Block Facebook Add these entries below to your hosts file Your hosts file Location: Linux, Unix and Mac OS X -> /etc/hosts Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 -> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Windows 2000 -> C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts Windows 98/ME -> C:\WINDOWS\hosts You can edit the hosts file with any text editor On Windows 7, the default AV security scan will try to remove the facebook.com entry; you'll need to add an exception to tell the OS to keep the block listing in the hosts file and not to remove it Facebook blocklist Wow! that would certainly shoot up the Hosts file size to over an MB?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batu69 Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 15 minutes ago, Rok said: Wow! that would certainly shoot up the Hosts file size to over an MB?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Better stay out of Facebook... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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