I used to find the problem was you can't actually connect to 0.0.0.0 if nothing is running there, so when browsing you get messages about not being able to connect where an ad banner would usually be. A nicer way to do it is to use unbound and lighttpd in combination with eachother. All you need do is serve up a small index.html like so:
<html>
</html>
And the ads appear collapsed.
Cheers,
chillfan
On Sunday, June 5, 2016 8:01 AM, 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 ...
> (?)
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