Author: Rob van der Putten Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] adblocking using /etc/hosts
Hi there
emninger@??? wrote:
> I don't know, if it is the right place here to ask such trivial
> questions, if not please tell me, no problem at all.
>
> I wanted to suggest, for the future, may be for a better user
> experience, if it is possible and reasonable to create a small script,
> which would configure /etc/hosts in a way that ad servers and that like
> were redirected to 0.0.0.0 ? May be this could be done in a way that the
> user will be prompted, if (s)he would like to install ad-blocking
> systemwide and also there should be an option to uninstall the created
> list from /etc/hosts .
>
> In my thinking that is a very elegant and easy way to keep the browsers
> itself small and efficient. But very likely, i'm missing some cons ...
> (?)
The webbrowser wants an object. So the thing to do is to replace the ad
with your own content. A small transparent gif is often used.