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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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Besides it being more effective at blocking ads and trackers it won't require a VPN connection to work
This, you don't have to even run a program. Every phone uses the host file all day all the time anyway, you're just telling it to load nothing instead of usual behavior of "no it's not hosted here, go get it online" you're just saying "no, don't go get it, it's hosted here" except it's not, so it isn't retrieved at all.