Block domains from the VM Hub

[SecretUser]

I'm looking to restrict/block access to some domains (mainly spam) what would be the best way to do this without additional hardware?

I have the VM hub 3

[legacy1]

You could edit the hosts file in windows

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

127.0.0.1 ads.com

you could setup bind and do the same thing and set your devices to point to it for DNS 

[Roger_Gooner]

What email client are you using? I get almost no spam with Gmail. Every email client has the means to block a domain, in the case of Gmail it's done with a filter to delete or archive emails from that domain name.

[SecretUser]

I'm not talking about emails but websites and ads

[Lee_R]

Hi SecretUser, thanks for getting back to us.

Did you have the opportunity to follow the advice from Legacy1?  If so, how have things gone?

Regards

Lee_R

[Tudor]

You cannot realistically do it without additional equipment. The solution provided earlier only works on Windows and the you have to enter many domains. I use Pi-Hole and there are over 650,000 domains in my block lists. In the last 24 hours Pi-Hole has blocked 11,251 requests.

[SecretUser]

Hi Lee, his solution is kind of what I'm looking for but the problem is I'd need to configure every device so it's not really useful. There's any way to request a feature like this to Virgin? Other routers in the market provide this already

[legacy1]

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@SecretUser wrote:

Other routers in the market provide this already

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Then you should get one VM will not do it

[SecretUser]

They don't like feedback to improve their services?

As I said at the beginning I'd like to avoid to buy additional hardware for this.