On 29 August 2017 07:38:42 GMT+02:00, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > I'm running a Core2-duo desktop from 2008 with 3 gigs of ram. I want >to run it into the ground, not throw it away while it's still >functional. With Gentoo optimization, pluse using ICEWM, it's >generally >snappy. But there are a few web pages that throw the kitchen sink of >3rd-pary adservers+trackers. 178 unique servers for one web page will >peg the load from the web browser to 150% of 1 cpu core. On a 2-core >machine, that is bad. The browser is unresponsive for a few seconds at >a time. > > I'm building up a rather large hosts file, but the adservers have a >gazillion subnames for each domain, in a deliberate attempt to bypass >hosts files. It would be more effective block entire domains. Is >there >a lightweight DNS server, or some iptables trick, or whatever, that'll >block specified domains?
Look into proxy servers. I think privoxy should be able to do the trick. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
