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How to control site access in Linux: Block unwanted websites

Sometimes you might face a situation where you would want to prevent and block access to a certain websites for one reason or another. In Linux blocking an access to an unwanted website(s) can be quite easily achieved with the following simple procedure.

1. Open terminal client (gnome-terminal, lxterminal, guake, or something else)

2. write the following commands to become a root user so you can edit /etc/hosts file Continue reading