Gas Mask is a free hosts file manager for Mac OS X that enables users. You enter the correct syntax when adding to the hosts file on your Mac. How to Use Gas Mask (Mac) Download and Install Gas Mask (Mac). Open and run the Gas Mask (Mac) application. The Icon Gas Mask (Mac) will appear on menu bar. Click Icon Gas Mask (Mac) on menu bar and choose Show Editor Window. On Editor Window Gas Mask (Mac) you can make a new hosts file without.

Maybe I should start by explaining what a hosts file is. But you can read all about it here. The average user probably shouldn’t mess with the hosts file unless…

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You can use the hosts file to block known malware, advertising or other unwanted domains. In macOS you can find the hosts file in /etc/hosts.

To block a domain all you need to do is to append 0 example.com or 0.0.0.0 example.com or 127.0.0.1 example.com to your hosts file.

Luckily you don’t have to do this manually because there’s a bunch of hosts lists available for everybody to use. See StevenBlack/hosts, someonewhocares.org and l1k/osxparanoia/blob/master/hosts

So how do you manage your macOS’ hosts file? First always backup the original file. You can do that by copying the file to a different location or create a copy in the same location and rename it to hosts.bak ( or something similar that allows you to easily identify it as your backup ).

Then you can create a second copy on your desktop, open the file with TextEdit, edit the file, save it and copy the edited hosts file back to the original location.

Or…

You can use Gas Mask. A simple, free and open source hosts file manager for macOS.

With Gas Mask, you can easily edit your hosts file, create multiple hosts files and switch between them on the fly. You can create three types of host files

• Local. Created and saved on your Mac.
• Remote. Create hosts file from URLs like the ones mentioned above
• Combined. Combines local and remote hosts files.

When you change the hosts file, Gas Mask will also flush the DNS automatically.

That’s pretty much it. Evolution mk-249c2 drivers for mac. Gas Mask is a simple and intuitive hosts file manager that does its job.

NOTE: You can use this method in conjunction with an Ad-Blocker. If you are not comfortable messing with the host file, I advise you on using an Ad-Blocker anyway. There’s plenty of them available out there. I suggest using uBlock Origin ( download link for Safari )

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