dusnm / ad-barricade

Ad blocking bash shell script inspired by AdAway

Ad Barricade

Ad blocking bash shell script inspired by AdAway

Table of Contents

• Warning
• Usage

Warning

This script was written for fun and it hasn't been tested for edge cases, use at your own risk.

Usage

Get help by typing

./adbr -h

Ad blocker inspired by AdAway

Usage: adbr [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -b    Backup the current hosts file manually
  -r    Restore the original hosts file from the backup
  -v    Print the version string of this script
  -h    Print this help message

You need to populate the URL file with ad server URLs. A good place to start is Steven Black's hosts.

Afterwards run the script without arguments to generate and install the hosts file

./adbr

ad-barricade's Issues

Implement a useful feature to prevent detecting the adblocker

Hey,
I wrote an adblocker too some time ago. I found a useful bug in most of the adblocker detectors:
If you start a server with an invalid certificate and redirect all websites with ads to it, it won't display the ad but the ad will be fake loaded. You can check that out here.

It would be nice if you implement that too.