[Eug-lug] Blocking ad servers via host redirection, apache, and you.

[Bob Miller]

Jason LaPier wrote:

> Yeah, you could even get a list of ad serving hosts from FilterSet.G
> (http://www.pierceive.com/) - the filter-set is made for Adblock, but
> seems like you could easily extract the hostnames from it:
> http://www.pierceive.com/filtersetg/2007-10-08a-MERGED.txt (about 30
> lines in, you see all the hostnames).

Then write a cron job to automatically download a new one periodically
and update /etc/hosts from it.  FilterSet.G is updated every couple of
weeks.

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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