Reply To: How to fight CR addiction

I would like to further add that:

1. the average person here has no clue what a HOSTS file is or where it’s located

2. Most people who have any home network rely on netbios broadcasts to find other computers, or use the wizards to find them.

So yeah, hosts file is mostly obsolete except for this case and malware (and a few speciailized cases kana”l)

3. The average person would not know how to do a dns query

4. The average person wouldn’t be interested in changing every link to x.x.x.x.x/coffeeroom/topic/whatever-topic- thus this works.