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2008-01-13 , 04:47
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Originally Posted by PJE View Post
The userContent.css file blocks quite a lot of ads, although not as many as the large hosts file and fakeweb, and was was wondering about the performance hit from having a large hosts file compared to the relatively small userContent.css script.
The idea is to use both. The big gain with the hosts over almost every other method (minus privoxy), is that it prevents the ads from even being loaded. This saves time, bandwidth, CPU and RAM.

But no, there is no hit with a large hosts. Instead of resolving the URL from a DNS server, it resolves from the hosts, which points nowhere.