Does Peerblock still have a use?

I was reading over some articles discussing Peerblock and there was a lot of back and forth about it’s usefulness. Most comments were directed toward file sharing, which I agree, it won’t do much, but what about in general terms, does Peerblock still serve a purpose? It depends on what you plan to do. As mentioned, it’s ability to block peers while sharing files doesn’t really help these days. It’s only as good as the list it downloads and considering hosts change their configuration at will, that’s not going to do much. Further, once you make a connection to a peer, your IP address is known. From a browser point of view, the features of Peerblock can be found in tools like Adblock Plus and Ghostery. You can also install BlockSite if you find yourself being directed to annoying advertisers. So is Peerblock worth running? In a simple sense it can be used to block advertisers from the system level […]