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sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2393 Location: UK

I've updated this tool a bit since it was included in Woof, nothing major but its faster.. I have also recentlty i18n'd (internationalised) it, so the GUI can be available in a number of languages.

Translations of the following english .mo file are welcome (I think its better to start getting real translations, rather than keep posting crap trans-Google-lations, as they are [apparently] more or less incomprehensible!)

stiginge · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 420 Location: Kerry, Ireland

One quick question, does the program automatically run when computer in rebooted? Or does it have to be run every time on bootup? I'm using 529 and there a shortcut from the jwm launch tray.

Iguleder · Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2011, 12:04 Post_subject:

You need to run it just once. The best way to see whether it worked is the length of /etc/hosts - should be thousands of lines Smile

Sadi · Joined: 09 Apr 2012 Posts: 1

Great work!!!

This is the closest thing I've found in the Linux world to this Windows Hosts Manager: www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman

Missing features are:
(1) Automatic updates (e.g. option to put a commandline version in /etc/cron.weekly or /etc/cron.monthly after configuration from the GUI control centre)
(2) Custom inclusion and exclusion lists (may be called hosts-user-allow and hosts-user-deny instead of black or white lists for political correctness Wink

(3) Possibility to add more online sources

I think it shouldn't be too difficult to add these.

And then I would wish I could also have a distro-independent version (replacing gtkdialog3 with zenity perhaps)

Kind regards,

Sadi

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1182

I was wondering... Are there any lists that can be added to PupAdvertBlocker so that it also blocks adult sites? Most adult content blockers work with keywords, that's horrible because for example you can open your email box or your favourite social network and get it suddenly closed by an adult content warning, this makes surfing the web very awkward.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4468

The only one I would recommend due to licensing issues with the rest is:
http://dsi.ut-capitole.fr/blacklists/download/

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 969 Location: London, England

@ scOttman
Are you still supporting this?

Anyway, with some help from Terryphi I was looking at this recently. Looks like the Technobeta service is dead so I removed it. Also the format of the Mvps list is now modified so some changes are needed to the code otherwise it has no effect (the whole list downloads but ends up getting totally deleted).

With the modifications I have made so far the Mvps list works, or you can combine it with the other two for a longer hosts lists (with duplicates removed) for maximum blocking.

I will upload what I have as "version 0.5b" here:-
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks/pup-advert-blocker-0.5b.pet
but I know very little about coding so someone may wish to make corrections or improvements.

Seems like Woof and Woof-CE still have an old version 0.3 which really could do with being looked at.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5969 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Barry has included the pup-advert-blocker into Woof - now in Woof-CE.
Would be great if we could join our effort there
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/blob/testing/woof-code/rootfs-skeleton/usr/sbin/pup-advert-blocker

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 969 Location: London, England

I have uploaded a couple of new versions of the advert blocker to
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks
as well as here.

All of the above fixes plus I have corrected the long-standing typo
It only affected the labels, not the functions, but...

systcl should be sysctl

There is a version 0.3b-woofce which is for Slacko 5.7 or later using Zigbert's nice new GUI

For Puppies earlier than that, use the version 0.5b

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7841 Location: qld

Oscar, this is in the woof structure so I have updated it. Thanks. ziggy will be happy that is gtkdialog libraries are gaining acceptance.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4468

fyi - if you want to run an app (wget for instance) with on a blocked site you can do this:

stray_dog · Joined: 18 Mar 2014 Posts: 53

Wow, guys - thank you for continuing this conversation. It really confused me a while ago when I tried to check-mark all four options and the advert blocker would hang & not complete as a gui. It took a while to figure out that technobeta had gone down and not to check it. I really like the changes that have been made & I'm pumped with curiosity to try to add stuff to my hosts file to see what the results are.