Adapting “hosts” file block lists to Privoxy's way of blocking…

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(Aug. 02, 2015 08:20 AM)cattleyavns Wrote:  hosts file will get slowed if it reach, if I remember correctly is about 200KB, in that case, hosts file will become slower.

There is a workaround: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm#DNS

I personally use hosts file with dnsmasq on the gateway machine.

I'm just curious if it is necessary to compress the file for Privoxy.