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1 Adblocking using /etc/hosts 2 =========================== 3 4 Adblocking is a non-trivial task, but there are trivial solutions. 5 6 host-gen 7 -------- 8 9 Install hosts-gen from <https://r-36.net/scm/hosts-gen> 10 11 % git clone git://r-36.net/hosts-gen 12 % cd hosts-gen 13 % sudo make install 14 15 Make sure all your custom configuration from your current /etc/hosts is 16 preserved in a file in /etc/hosts.d. The files have to begin with a 17 number, a minus and then the name. 18 19 Install the gethostszero script. 20 21 # In the above directory. 22 % sudo cp examples/gethostszero /bin 23 % sudo chmod 775 /bin/gethostszero 24 % sudo /bin/gethostszero 25 % sudo hosts-gen 26 27 Now the /etc/hosts with the zero hosts is ready and will be used in any 28 further started application. 29 30 The gethostszero file can of course be reused to more easier create the 31 /etc/hosts file. A cronjob can be used to update the file and run hosts-gen 32 again. 33 34 35 * Author : Christoph Lohmann < 20h (at) r-36 (dot) net > 36 37 38 zerohosts 39 --------- 40 41 The following script gather well-known and trusted lists from various 42 places : [adaway](https://adaway.org/hosts.txt), 43 [someonewhocares](https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts), 44 [pgl.yoyo](https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext)... 45 46 They are supposed to be written in `/etc/hosts` file to disable DNS resolution. 47 48 Get the script from here : 49 [zerohosts.sh](https://si3t.ch/code/zerohosts/zerohost.sh). 50 51 Include your own `/etc/hosts` rules by including a file as an argument 52 53 zerohosts.sh /etc/myhosts.txt > /etc/hosts 54 55 Run the script each time you want to update the lists using a cronjob, or 56 `/etc/rc.local`. 57 58 59 * Main page : <https://si3t.ch/code/zerohosts/> 60 * Author : < prx (at) si3t (dot) ch > 61 (feel free to suggest improvements) 62 63 64 firejail 65 -------- 66 67 If you don't want to use your /etc/hosts file, you can use firejail: 68 69 firejail --noprofile --hosts-file="~/adblockhosts" surf "example.com"