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Host file recipe	Readme	Raw hosts	Unique domains	Non GitHub mirror
Unified hosts = (adware + malware)	Readme	link	76,736	link
Unified hosts + fakenews	Readme	link	79,301	link
fakenews	Readme	link	2,187	link
Unified hosts + gambling	Readme	link	83,825	link
gambling	Readme	link	6,723	link
Unified hosts + porn	Readme	link	153,196	link
porn	Readme	link	76,801	link
Unified hosts + social	Readme	link	80,890	link
social	Readme	link	3,808	link
Unified hosts + fakenews + gambling	Readme	link	86,012	link
fakenews + gambling	Readme	link	8,916	link
Unified hosts + fakenews + porn	Readme	link	155,383	link
fakenews + porn	Readme	link	78,994	link
Unified hosts + fakenews + social	Readme	link	83,077	link
fakenews + social	Readme	link	6,001	link
Unified hosts + gambling + porn	Readme	link	159,907	link
gambling + porn	Readme	link	83,524	link
Unified hosts + gambling + social	Readme	link	87,601	link
gambling + social	Readme	link	10,531	link
Unified hosts + porn + social	Readme	link	156,970	link
porn + social	Readme	link	80,607	link
Unified hosts + fakenews + gambling + porn	Readme	link	162,094	link
fakenews + gambling + porn	Readme	link	85,717	link
Unified hosts + fakenews + gambling + social	Readme	link	89,788	link
fakenews + gambling + social	Readme	link	12,724	link
Unified hosts + fakenews + porn + social	Readme	link	159,157	link
fakenews + porn + social	Readme	link	82,800	link
Unified hosts + gambling + porn + social	Readme	link	163,681	link
gambling + porn + social	Readme	link	87,330	link
Unified hosts + fakenews + gambling + porn + social	Readme	link	165,868	link
fakenews + gambling + porn + social	Readme	link	89,471	link

Host file source	Home page	Raw hosts	License	Issues	Description
Steven Black's ad-hoc list	link	raw	MIT	issues	Additional sketch domains as I come across them.
AdAway	link	raw	CC BY 3.0	issues	AdAway is an open source ad blocker for Android using the hosts file.
add.2o7Net	link	raw	MIT	issues	2o7Net tracking sites based on hostsfile.org content.
add.Dead	link	raw	MIT	issues	Dead sites based on hostsfile.org content.
add.Risk	link	raw	MIT	issues	Risk content sites based on hostsfile.org content.
add.Spam	link	raw	MIT	issues	Spam sites based on hostsfile.org content.
Mitchell Krog's - Badd Boyz Hosts	link	raw	MIT	issues	Sketchy domains and Bad Referrers from my Nginx and Apache Bad Bot and Spam Referrer Blockers
hostsVN	link	raw	MIT	issues	Hosts block ads of Vietnamese
KADhosts	link	raw	CC BY-SA 4.0	issues	Fraud/adware/scam websites.
minecraft-hosts	link	raw	CC0-1.0	issues	Minecraft related tracker hosts
MVPS hosts file	link	raw	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0	issues	The purpose of this site is to provide the user with a high quality custom HOSTS file.
Dan Pollock – someonewhocares	link	raw	non-commercial with attribution	issues	How to make the internet not suck (as much).
Tiuxo hostlist - ads	link	raw	CC BY 4.0	issues	Categorized hosts files for DNS based content blocking
UncheckyAds	link	raw	MIT	issues	Windows installers ads sources sites based on https://unchecky.com/ content.
yoyo.org	link	raw		issues	Blocking with ad server and tracking server hostnames.

StevenBlack/hosts

Unified hosts file with base extensions

List of all hosts file variants

Sources of hosts data unified in this variant

Extensions

Generate your own unified hosts file

Option 1: Use our container image (Linux only)

Option 2: Generate your own container image

Option 3: Generate it in your own environment

Option 4: Generate it in Google Colab

Common steps regardless of your development environment

Command line options

How do I control which sources are unified?

How do I include my own custom domain mappings?

How do I prevent domains from being included?

How can I contribute hosts records?

Option 1: contact one of our hosts sources

Option 2: Fork this repository, add your domains to Steven Black's personal data file, and submit a pull request

Option 3: create your own hosts list as a repo on GitHub

What is a hosts file?

We recommend using `0.0.0.0` instead of `127.0.0.1`

Why not use `0` instead of `0.0.0.0`?

Location of your hosts file

Gentoo

NixOS

Nix Flake

Updating hosts file on Windows

For older versions of Windows

For new versions of Windows

Warning: Using this `hosts` file in Windows may require disabling DNS Cache service

Reloading hosts file

Windows

Linux

macOS

Release management

Goals of this unified hosts file

Third-Party Hosts Managers

Interesting Applications

Contribute