I've finally managed to find a better alternative to the Chrome extension, which bypasses my blocklist of unwanted domain names:
pdnsd - a proxy DNS server with permanent caching Although its latest version "1.2.9a-par" dates back to 2012, and it can be found on Launchpad with some difficulty if you use Ubuntu later than Wily or Xenial, it still works just fine! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1652449 Title: dnsmasq requires restart randomly now and then in order to access random URLs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/1652449/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs