Block Twitter/Facebook in your /etc/hosts

gistfile1.txt

# Block Facebook IPv4
127.0.0.1   www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1   facebook.com
127.0.0.1   login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1   www.login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1   fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1   www.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1   fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1   www.fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1   static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1   static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1   connect.facebook.net
127.0.0.1   www.connect.facebook.net
0.0.0.0     meta.com
0.0.0.0     www.meta.com


# Block Twitter
127.0.0.1 www.twitter.com
127.0.0.1 twitter.com
127.0.0.1   apps.facebook.com

# Block Facebook IPv6
fe80::1%lo0 facebook.com
fe80::1%lo0 login.facebook.com
fe80::1%lo0 www.login.facebook.com
fe80::1%lo0 fbcdn.net
fe80::1%lo0 www.fbcdn.net
fe80::1%lo0 fbcdn.com
fe80::1%lo0 www.fbcdn.com
fe80::1%lo0 static.ak.fbcdn.net
fe80::1%lo0 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
fe80::1%lo0 connect.facebook.net
fe80::1%lo0 www.connect.facebook.net
fe80::1%lo0 apps.facebook.com

No matter what I tried I can't block $$#@%$ Twitter, including using IPV6 blocking. The leeches want you to come back to Mommy Twitter so they've made it Very difficult to block them.

If all you want to block is twitter.com then it's as simple as 0.0.0.0 twitter.com. These lists are to block any additional subdomains that twitter might be using for e.g. widgets, trackers, analytics, etc. on other websites. So if all you want is to not be able to open twitter.com, that single line is sufficient. The "leeches" can't really do anything to stop you from blocking them; you can literally cut your internet cables and be done with it. you could run your own twitter on your local network for your family to enjoy.

That is a brilliant attempt at providing a full list. Bravo.
Unfortunately, it didn't work on Twitter. And, just to confirm no rookie mistake, I was running Notepad as administrator

LoL no rookie mistake, I was running Notepad as administrator I didn't know that using Notepad was getting you off the rookie list

sudo nano /etc/hosts

Should it be updated with following lines?

0.0.0.0 meta.com
0.0.0.0 www.meta.com

Still can't block $#@!$# Twitter with the full list. It's like some kind of evil leech. Thank God Dorsey is leaving. What really stinks is they blocked my account but you can't delete your account if it's blocked so I am stuck with that horror Forever.

I finally blocked Twitter with a Chrome app, but for some odd reason the blank page I get still has that stupid bird.

I was also having trouble with Twitter. How I fixed:

• Go to Twitter
• Open developer tools, go to the application tab
• Click on "clear site data"

After that, Twitter was not able to load anymore

In addition to that, I also added 0.0.0.0 api.twitter.com

If you are using Pi-Hole for blocking just Facebook, you can plug these into the admin web console as wildcard domains:

facebook.com
facebook.net
fbcdn.com
fbcdn.net
fbsbx.com
fbsbx.net
fburl.com
fb.me
fb.com
m.me
messenger.com

Pi-hole wildcard domains match on regex like: (\.|^)facebook\.com$