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✔️ Content Blocker is a robust web filtering project aimed at enhancing online privacy and security.
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How to make use of this? #78

Closed acagastya closed 2 years ago

acagastya commented 2 years ago

Hi, I was suggested this software yesterday, when I was looking for something like ublock-origin, but for the whole OS. I tried go run main.go -install on macos and it says "2021/09/19 09:26:43 Error: There is already a system host file presnet.". I already have /etc/hosts which has some localhost mappings. Is this programme supposed to make an entry for the blacklisted URLs in that file? When I run go run main.go -update, it echoes:

2021/09/19 09:28:06 open assets/hosts: too many open files
2021/09/19 09:28:06 invalid argument
2021/09/19 09:28:06 open assets/hosts: too many open files
2021/09/19 09:28:06 invalid argument

but has a clean exit. What is supposed to happen after that?

ghost commented 2 years ago

Hey the update flag validates and updates the hosts.

Make sure your running it as sudo. Also all you have to do is remove your local etc/hosts and than run the install flag.

A better way to use this is to is with a VPN or a dns server.

acagastya commented 2 years ago

@Prajwal-Koirala I ran sudo go run main.go -install after sudo rm /etc/hosts on macos, and it did not create a /etc/hosts file. Why so?

Also, while this we figure that out, should putting these lines in /etc/hosts do the work?

0.0.0.0 example.com
0.0.0.0 some-other-ad-site.com
ghost commented 2 years ago

@Prajwal-Koirala I ran sudo go run main.go -install after sudo rm /etc/hosts on macos, and it did not create a /etc/hosts file. Why so?

Also, while this we figure that out, should putting these lines in /etc/hosts do the work?

0.0.0.0 example.com
0.0.0.0 some-other-ad-site.com

What error did it give u? No. That's the format of the file and not the actual content.

ghost commented 2 years ago

Hey.

try this.

sudo mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.old
sudo curl -o /etc/hosts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/complexorganizations/content-blocker/main/assets/hosts
sudo sed -i -e "s/^/0.0.0.0 /" /etc/hosts
ghost commented 2 years ago

@acagastya Any update?

acagastya commented 2 years ago

@Prajwal-Koirala I gave it a shot (go binary is still not editing the hosts file). What I was looking for (and was pointed out to this repo on #ublock-origin on libera.chat) a OS-wide ublock-origin type of tool. I tried the 0.0.0.0 example.com and after restarting, I opened, just for testing, youtube.com on safari, which does not have ublock origin add-on. I could still see ads. What kind of ads should I not be seeing using this tool? I think I might be using it incorrectly?

ghost commented 2 years ago

@Prajwal-Koirala I gave it a shot (go binary is still not editing the hosts file). What I was looking for (and was pointed out to this repo on #ublock-origin on libera.chat) a OS-wide ublock-origin type of tool. I tried the 0.0.0.0 example.com and after restarting, I opened, just for testing, youtube.com on safari, which does not have ublock origin add-on. I could still see ads. What kind of ads should I not be seeing using this tool? I think I might be using it incorrectly?

Hey, There is no dns based blocking tool that's perfect, it's not possible at the current time, this will block a lot of the ads and other stuff based on domain names but what most people are looking for is stuff like ublock origin which has the ability to edit and block the content on a webpage rather than a dns based blocking tool.

So for example lets say you wanted to block all of example.com this is the perfect tool but if u wanted to block example.com/ads this isn't the right tool.

Its really good with blocking ads on a smaller services rather than larger ones, for example some random blog or something that rely on google than it will be blocked but something like youtube that can spin up 10000x new domains to server ads it will be harder and than they will just use youtube.com to server them too.