Use hblock to improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains

Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.

Want to keep a copy of your /etc/hosts

sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts-original
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 the content of your /etc/hosts file so that 100.000+ domains will be blocked.

We have built 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.

sudo pacman -S arcolinux-hblock-git
man hblock
hblock

You can read more about hblock on his github.

Temporarily disable hblock with

hblock -S none -D none

This was the original content of my /etc/hosts file (for reference and backup).

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 ArcoLinuxB
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
July 2019 renamed hblock-git
to
arcolinux-hblock-git
whitelist & blacklist

Update your system to be sure you have the last version.

Or install it now

sudo pacman -S arcolinux-hblock-git

Then type this command in your terminal to start it all

hblock

Add the whitelist domain names in

/etc/hblock/allow.list

and the blacklist domain names in

/etc/hblock/deny.list

In the video you see me whitelist analytics.google.com with success.

 

Current content of my whitelist file aka /etc/hblock.d/whitelist.list

location.services.mozilla.com
analytics.google.com
  1. Redlight and redlight-gtk – to be able to locate your geoip
  2. website to analyze webtraffic

OcTOBER 2019 ADDED
adblock icon
to xfce settings

In a month or two click it again
to get the new blocked domains