Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.
These are the exact words from the developer, Héctor Molinero Fernández, on his github site: https://github.com/hectorm/hblock
This tool will basically change your hosts file in /etc so that 100.000+ domains will be blocked.
We have build a package so the application can be easily installed and updated!
All you need to do is install the application and run it once. A timer and a service will make sure that you will get the latest blocked domains at a certain interval.
RUN ONCE AND FORGET ABOUT IT.
A backup will never hurt anyone.
1 2 3 | sudo pacman -S hblock-git sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts-backup hblock |
You can read more about what it is for, is it safe to use, sources, … on his github.
Best ALTERNATIVE
Use the command
hblock -b
to make a backup of your /etc/hosts file
This was the original content of my /etc/hosts file.
Just for reference and backup.
1 2 3 4 5 | 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 ArcoLinuxB ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters |
