Ability to block websites

The modern man is more and more integrated with the web, and the corporations have gotten exceedingly good at capturing the modern man’s attention - sometimes against his or her best interest and even wishes.

Please allow us to easily block websites.

Not quite a “block website” but is something:

  1. Switch to aggressive mode ads/trackers in brave://settings/shields
  2. Then add a domain into brave://adblock. example, ||foxnews.com^ would show a blocked warning if you attempt to load the site.

Otherwise there should be various extensions available that do something more extensive.

I’ve probably found a solution for this for Windows OS(s).
You can block websites adding URLs in the hosts file:

  1. Go to C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\
  2. Copy the file hosts on the Desktop
  3. Open it with Notepad (or Notepad++)
  4. Add strings. An example:
    If you want to block foxnews.com, add the following string:
    " 127.0.0.1 foxnews.com"
  5. Save changes and copy the new file in the folder (C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc)

Do I type that directly into the Custom filter as shown? For example, I would type ||cnn.com^ exactly and paste into Custom Filters. Is that correct? See snip below. TIA

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Where is this information found? Is it the same for all windows OS systems and all websites? Or where can I find this information?

So, I am on win10. Following my previous example, if I want to block cnn.com, this would be the string I type: 127.0.0.1 cnn.com

Is that correct? TIA too!

yes it work for all windows

check this one for extra details

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check the syntax here

https://adblockplus.org/filter-cheatsheet

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Nice article and easy to understand for the tech illiterate! lol I am going to browse other articles on that site. Thank-you! :smiley:

Edit: and thanks again! lol

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@Chocoholic search engine is your friend :wink: and you very welcome :slight_smile:

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lol it is. I agree! I actually found the adblock site, but guess I just wasn’t entering the correct keywords for the other. Or at least everything I pulled up didn’t look relevant… you know, the tech illiterate thingie. :wink:

you fine just keep learning as everyone does :wink:

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not good enough.
I also want a website blocker, it would extremely cool if the search engines would let us do that but we know they never will.