Has this conversation switched into a foreign language? Can I remind people that I haven’t programmed since learning Pascal in the early 1980’s?
If my normal add-ons have been Ublock Origin and Privacy Badger all along anyway, then do I really need to add the hosts file too?
Why am I trying to do this in question format? Isn’t sudo included in the osX command line, but the account setup is a GUI?
Probably not?
Can an average user logged in as an admin user click the Finder dock icon, enter cmd-option-G (or use the Go->Go to Folder menu), then enter “/etc” in the dialog, click the ‘Go’ button, double-click ‘hosts’ in the Finder, edit the file in TextEdit as they see fit, then hit save and enter their password to save and be done?
With the info we have, maybe /etc/hosts should be deferred since inadvertently messing that up could be a pain to fix?
Maybe other things are better to sort out relating to the browser before messing around with etc files, though?
Wait, who changed the thread title?
Maybe check and see if this will help?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/
Wasn’t I sandbagged?
Isn’t it easy to confuse all of those threads with 16,000 replies apiece?
Can you forgive me for looking at the title before the counter?
Does that make it any less of an infraction? Can you forgive me for hitting you first, as I’m running the thread backwards?
No you don’t, am I really sure this will work for you, like for most other people?
Only, why do you have such a slow Firefox?
Did anybody else get confused?
Do you want to see the changes, you time-travelers from the future-time when everything is back to normal, and the thread has hit 800K and is the only thread on the forum?
Wait, who did a ninja edit AFTER getting Donalded?
Aah, is this indeed more clearer?
And why, why, am I also doing this in the question thread? Isn’t it awfully hard?
Why am I out of likes, now of all possible times?
Should the handling a average user need to do to even be able to edit hers/his hosts file be enough warning? Besides that, define a average user? And if somebody managed to get there on a mac, isn’t it easy to talk about backup and replacing the file?
And is indeed chgoliz not able to be just honest about her boundaries? Does that not make somebody strong and knowledgeable?
Maybe my world is a bit small with nerds and knowledgeable people around? Sorry, but please do you mind to not shoot me for that?
Do I love to educate, but only forget sometimes who’s the audience?
Wasn’t I just answering @stynx on the existence of /etc/hosts in osX? Doesn’t she do some domain blacklisting there, though didn’t we all agree that was likely not the issue?
Did you just retract your post?
@All: What the heck is going on? Do we need to make a “no tech support in the questions thread” rule?
@OtherMichael: Should I flounce?
Isn’t that probably a very good idea?no not the flounce… Argh come in donald…
I was talkinf about the no tech support, before you edited.
After listening to a few episodes of This American Life - what is it that David Sedaris fans are laughing at? Am I missing something?
