I tried to block Facebook on Chrome by changing the hosts file but to no avail. What could possibly went wrong?
I followed exactly what the op did and rebooted, but I could still have access to Facebook.
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Sign up to join this communityI tried to block Facebook on Chrome by changing the hosts file but to no avail. What could possibly went wrong?
I followed exactly what the op did and rebooted, but I could still have access to Facebook.
facebook.com
notfacebook. com
. The latter one assigns onlyfacebook.
to another IP. Any errors in thehosts
file is silently ignored and that's it. – GiantTree Apr 20 '16 at 12:51facebook
(that's possible) then it's blocked as well. It's just not needed because there won't be a host with that hostname. – GiantTree Apr 20 '16 at 13:00