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What are the IP ranges to block the entire Russian Federation?
7,255 IP address blocks assigned to the Russian Federation
As of June 2018, there are over 7,200 IPv4 address blocks assigned to the Russian Federation. The largest of them, with 524,288 addresses ...
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How do I block a device from accessint internet through ASUS RT-AC68U router
On the network map screen (main screen) click "Clients", then click on the icon next to device details.
On the new popup screen you can switch "block internet access" ON/OFF
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How to reduce memory/CPU usage during build by Visual Studio build?
First of all, @Grawity, I'd like to thank you for your comment, but I believe I've found the key issue:
I mentioned the maximum number of concurrent threads per build to be 14, but apparently that ...
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How to block every image on a website?
tl;dr
Just add one (or both) of these rules to your adblocker's filters:
example.com##img to block every <img> element
example.com$image to block every image served from example.com
Check the ...
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uBlock Origin - Create filter based on href link
It's a cosmetic filter, so you need to prefix with the target site.
The rest is standard CSS Syntax.
targetpage.com##a[href*="referral_story"]
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How to use uBlock Origin to block just the page stackexchange.com without blocking the entire stackexchange network?
This answer attempts to block Hot Network Questions (HNQ) only on Stack Exchange (SE) homepage (as per OP's comment).
The HNQ on SE Homepage is inside a div with the ID question-list thus the needed ...
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What is Google Chrome's block/allow pattern syntax?
From some testing it's like this:
Doesn't match subdomains automatically, unless you prefix [*.], which seems to be the only allowed wildcard construct. Further you can optionally prefix the exact URI ...
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I can't block Facebook addresses with /etc/hosts
This is not working as websites are served via HTTPs and IPv6 protocol by default now a days, so you need to map As shown in this image Facebook to IPv6’s localhost notation as well. Then you can ...
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Windows 10 - Blocking a Website in Hosts File
You are blocking www.m.facebook.com, not m.facebook.com, just add another entry:
127.0.0.1 m.facebook.com
to your hosts file.
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How do I block traffic to "evaluated" IPs without using a separate DNS?
These are websites for Microsoft telemetry, Windows Update and Akamai network
optimizations.
Analyzing the websites in your list:
dm3p.wns.notify.windows.com.akadns.net is 13.89.217.116 registered ...
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How i can block any kind of video on my router?
Unfortunately a router has limited vision when it comes to applications or filetypes that a client device is accessing. In other words, it is difficult for a router to identify a video vs other data. ...
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Disable ALL cookie warnings and hints
2022 update: uBlock Origin has cookie notice blocking built in. Enable Fanboy’s Annoyance filter list, which has EasyList Cookie List built in, or enable EasyList Cookie List directly.
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Download blocked attachment in outlook web
Since you say, it's a one-off, here s one way to do it.
Create a new Google Account, they are free
Forward the email to this account
Open in Google Mail (GMail) and save it to your computer.
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How did the Marriott block wifi hotspots?
If you read the FCC release further it says:
Marriott operates a Wi-Fi monitoring system manufactured by a third
party that was installed at the Gaylord Opryland. Among other
features, the ...
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How to Block Doodle in Chrome's 'New Tab' page?
The only solution I've found so far is Blank New Tab Page extension
It removes Google search bar from the new tab altogether.
But I'm used to searching from the address bar using Alt+D anyway.
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Modern Browser with a feature to disable SNI
Recently firefox added ESNI support as an experimental feature. This means that on sites that support it (over TLS1.3), the browser will send encrypted server name during handshake.
Many of the ...
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How to disable / block / suppress a specific JavaScript (without disabling JS)
Install uBlock Origin
Add filter to filters list:
webpage.com##script:contains(...)
Replace webpage.com with page you want. Raplece ... with text witch script contains, it may be function name or ...
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How to block specific URL rather than the entire domain on a computer without software?
It’s not possible. To block an HTTP resource, you need a filter that understands HTTP. No such thing is built into Windows (or any other operating system).
Indeed, with HTTPS (which Facebook uses) ...
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Is there a better way to mitigate this obscure color bug when piping to FINDSTR inside a parenthesized block of (.bat) code?
Building on an attempt by user vssher to answer the question (vssher deleted his/her attempt after it was found not to work right) I think I've found the best solution: place the FINDSTR command ...
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Windows 10 - Blocking a Website in Hosts File
First, throughout your question, you refer to the file as host. Have you created a new file, rather than using hosts?
If this was only a typographical error in the question, then try using the IP ...
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Is there a way to find out if blocking is implemented by the website itself or my ISP?
You can use traceroute (tracert in windows) to partially determine where the blockage to a site is. This tool works by setting the TTL (time to live) in the packet to 1...n and sending it to get the ...
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How to Block chrome://extensions/ URL?
Working as of March 11, 2023 on Version 111.0.5563.65
Use Chrome's URLBlocklist policy
On Windows, the Registry key to block sites can be found under Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\URLBlocklist in ...
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How did the Marriott block wifi hotspots?
The Gaylord Opryland Resort operated APs which would send 802.11 deauthentication frames with spoofed addresses, basically fooling client devices into thinking that they were disconnected from the Wi-...
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McAfee is blocking Counter Strike 1.6
The file on the forum contains a non-licensed version of Counter Strike, so that's illegal.
Actually, you should just buy the game from Steam, and be happy with it. It's about 10€.
Sometimes, cracks ...
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How to block distracting websites using hosts file while on a VPN?
Using a VPN basically bypasses the hosts file completely. Since all the traffic is encrypted, Windows doesn't know if you access Twitter. Check your VPN software for a blocking option.
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How do I block traffic to "evaluated" IPs without using a separate DNS?
We can try this link which talked about Block or Redirect specific Websites in windows hosts file.
[https://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/edit-windows-hosts-file-to-block-redirect-websites/][...
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What is Google Chrome's block/allow pattern syntax?
I initially had the same behavior but [*.]example.com is the correct syntax and it works, after i have copy and paste the adress from HERE
Now i can use every url, maybe it's a bug.
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How do I block traffic to "evaluated" IPs without using a separate DNS?
Method 1
Ping the domains which you want to block to get their IP addresses, and then follow these steps:
Open Windows Firewall from the Control Panel;
Select Advanced Settings;
On windows 10 just ...
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Block all ports except SSH/HTTP in ipchains and iptables
Using ufw to block everything by default but allow ssh and http/https:
sudo ufw default deny incoming
sudo ufw default deny outgoing
sudo ufw allow 22
sudo ufw allow 80
sudo ufw allow 443
sudo ufw ...
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Block mobile.twitter.com using etc/hosts
As @davidgo pointed out in the comments, you just need to clear all the cache data from your browser (if it's Chrome,
just press Ctrl + Shift + Delete) but your host file is alright.
After clearing ...
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