Thread: [Fremantle Maemo5+Harmattan Maemo6] [Announce] Give Mee No Ads! - script to easy up /etc/hosts adblocking
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2014-07-22 , 10:58
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Originally Posted by peterleinchen View Post
And - just to mention - there are also voices that the hosts file should not be (ab)used for ad blocking. (nevertheless: I do so, as adblock on N900 blocked my cups printer configuration [add printer])
You don't need to modify the host file there is also a way to use dnsmasq which I am using in the genwall application.
It could be easily written a routine which imports some file with ad-hosts and writing to the file for dnsmasq.
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