-#Amalgamated hosts file
+#Unified hosts file
-This repository consolidates several reputable `hosts` files, and merges them into a single amalgamated hosts file
+This repository consolidates several reputable `hosts` files, and merges them into a single unified hosts file
with duplicates removed.
-**Expectation**: This amalgamated hosts file should serve all devices, regardless of OS.
+**Expectation**: This unified hosts file should serve all devices, regardless of OS.
-* Last updated: **February 27 2016**.
+* Last updated: **February 28 2016**.
* Contains: **27,149 unique entries**.
-You can [download the resultant amalgamated hosts file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts)
+You can [download the resultant unified hosts file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts)
or clone this repo and generate your own using the Python script provided.
-## Sources of host data amalgamated here
+## Sources of host data unified here
-Updated `hosts` files from the following locations are amalgamated:
+Updated `hosts` files from the following locations are unified:
* The [Adaway hosts file](http://adaway.org/hosts.txt), updated regularly.
* MVPs.org Hosts file at [http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm](http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm), updated
In addition, the hosts amalgamater is extensible. You manage extensions by curating the `extensions/` folder tree.
See the `porn` extension which is included, for example.
-## Generate your own amalgamated hosts file
+## Generate your own unified hosts file
-The `updateHostsFile.py` script, which is python 2.7 and Python 3-compatible, will generate an amalgamated hosts file
+The `updateHostsFile.py` script, which is python 2.7 and Python 3-compatible, will generate a unified hosts file
based on the sources in the local `data/` subfolder. The script will prompt you Whether it should fetch updated
versions (from locations defined by the update.info text file in each source's folder), otherwise it will use the
`hosts` file that's already there.
`--help`, or `-h`: display help.
-## How do I control which sources are amalgamated?
+## How do I control which sources are unified?
Add one or more *additional* sources, each in a subfolder of the `data/` folder, and specify its update url in `update.info` file.
## How do I incorporate my own hosts?
If you have custom host records, place them in file `myhosts`. The contents of this file are prepended to the
-amalgamated hosts file during the update process.
+unified hosts file during the update process.
## What is a hosts file?
**Others**: Consult [this wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file%29#Location_in_the_file_system).
-## Goals of this amalgamated hosts file
+## Goals of this unified hosts file
The goals of this repo are to:
here because it is very large (300,000+ entries) and doesn't currently display a corresponding high level of curation
activity.
-It is expected that this amalgamated hosts file will serve both desktop and mobile devices under a variety of operating
+It is expected that this unified hosts file will serve both desktop and mobile devices under a variety of operating
systems.
-#Amalgamated hosts file
+#Unified hosts file
-This repository consolidates several reputable `hosts` files, and merges them into a single amalgamated hosts file
+This repository consolidates several reputable `hosts` files, and merges them into a single unified hosts file
with duplicates removed.
-**Expectation**: This amalgamated hosts file should serve all devices, regardless of OS.
+**Expectation**: This unified hosts file should serve all devices, regardless of OS.
* Last updated: **@GEN_DATE@**.
* Contains: **@NUM_ENTRIES@ unique entries**.
-You can [download the resultant amalgamated hosts file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts)
+You can [download the resultant unified hosts file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts)
or clone this repo and generate your own using the Python script provided.
-## Sources of host data amalgamated here
+## Sources of host data unified here
-Updated `hosts` files from the following locations are amalgamated:
+Updated `hosts` files from the following locations are unified:
* The [Adaway hosts file](http://adaway.org/hosts.txt), updated regularly.
* MVPs.org Hosts file at [http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm](http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm), updated
In addition, the hosts amalgamater is extensible. You manage extensions by curating the `extensions/` folder tree.
See the `porn` extension which is included, for example.
-## Generate your own amalgamated hosts file
+## Generate your own unified hosts file
-The `updateHostsFile.py` script, which is python 2.7 and Python 3-compatible, will generate an amalgamated hosts file
+The `updateHostsFile.py` script, which is python 2.7 and Python 3-compatible, will generate a unified hosts file
based on the sources in the local `data/` subfolder. The script will prompt you Whether it should fetch updated
versions (from locations defined by the update.info text file in each source's folder), otherwise it will use the
`hosts` file that's already there.
`--help`, or `-h`: display help.
-## How do I control which sources are amalgamated?
+## How do I control which sources are unified?
Add one or more *additional* sources, each in a subfolder of the `data/` folder, and specify its update url in `update.info` file.
## How do I incorporate my own hosts?
If you have custom host records, place them in file `myhosts`. The contents of this file are prepended to the
-amalgamated hosts file during the update process.
+unified hosts file during the update process.
## What is a hosts file?
**Others**: Consult [this wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file%29#Location_in_the_file_system).
-## Goals of this amalgamated hosts file
+## Goals of this unified hosts file
The goals of this repo are to:
here because it is very large (300,000+ entries) and doesn't currently display a corresponding high level of curation
activity.
-It is expected that this amalgamated hosts file will serve both desktop and mobile devices under a variety of operating
+It is expected that this unified hosts file will serve both desktop and mobile devices under a variety of operating
systems.