Holy Jesus, nobody read this guys email. He is not an administrator trying to block users access to facebook, he just doesn't want facebook snooping him when he visits other websites. He has been given the right answer already. Adsuck will solve all of his problems. It will block facebook and any others he chooses.
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013, at 04:36 AM, Sico Bruins wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:27:38AM +0200, Stefan Wollny wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > having a personal dislike of Facebook (and the MeeToo-systems alike) > > for their impertinent sniffing for private data I tried on my laptop to > > block facebook.com via hosts-file. > > <snip> > > > My question is on the squid-server I have running at home: What > > would make more sense - blocking facebook.com via pf.conf alike or are > > there reasons to use squid's ACL instead? Performance? Being > > ultra-paranoid and implementing both (or even additionally the > > hosts-file-block?)? From my understanding squid should not be able to > > block https-traffic as it is encrypted - or am I wrong here? > > That is a misunderstanding, squid couldn't care less about encryption. > > > Curious if there is a particular (Open)BSD solution or simply how you > > 'guys and gals' would do it. > > I am in a similar situation (squid at home) and I simply have a blacklist > with lines like these: > > doubleclick > facebook > scorecardresearch > > Works like a charm for me, and no need to look up IP address blocks > or anything like that. And since I am the only user here there's no > collateral damage. ;-) > > > Thank you for sharing your thoughts. > > > > Cheers, > > STEFAN > > CU, Sico. > > --
