block many online ads in any browser
This tool will download a list of known advertising servers and add them to your "/etc/hosts" file - blocking them from you.
Then you can browse the web without seeing or downloading a large number of popular and very annoying online ads
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
This tool is very simple, but does the trick nicely, I think.
Using all services currently blocks around 30,300 ad servers (Aug 2010)
Suggestions and improvements still welcome.
Changelog:
version 0.5
- added a fix I accidentally un-added!
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
- changed detection of empty list
- cleaned the code a tiny little bit
- added a timeout to wget (avoids endless pausing)
version 0.4
- added (only some of) Barry Ks bugfixes (whoops! fixed in v0.5)
version 0.3
- fixed duplicate removal (using dos2unix to convert carriage returns)
- updated help GUI
version 0.2
- added more servers
- servers can be combined or chosen separately
- ads can be disabled by not selecting any servers
- (duplicates are still found in the final built list!)
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
(Thanks to this thread) (thx 2 lguleder etc)