Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains. This POSIX-compliant shell script, designed for Unix-like systems, gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple reputable sources and creates a hosts file that prevents your system from connecting to them.
Installation
curl -o /tmp/hblock 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zant95/hblock/v1.3.2/hblock' \ && echo 'd402d9b941300c255271a609a063174dc52233fe80049df29b535c1d339bc7dd /tmp/hblock' | shasum -c \ && sudo mv /tmp/hblock /usr/local/bin/hblock \ && sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/hblock \ && sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/hblock
Usage
You can also change the default behavior using these options:
Usage: hblock [options...]
-O, --output FILE Hosts file location (default: /etc/hosts)
-R, --redirection IP Destination IP for all entries in the blocklist
(default: 0.0.0.0)
-H, --header HEADER Content to be included at the beginning of the
hosts file. You can use the output of any other
command (e.g. "$(cat header.txt)")
-S, --sources URLS Sources to be used to generate the blocklist
(whitespace separated URLs)
-W, --whitelist ENTRIES Entries to be removed from the blocklist
(whitespace separated POSIX BREs)
-B, --blacklist ENTRIES Entries to be added to the blocklist
(whitespace separated domain names)
-b, --backup [DIRECTORY] Make a time-stamped backup in DIRECTORY
(default: output file directory)
-l, --lenient Match any IP address from sources, although it
will be replaced by the destination IP
(default: 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1 or none)
-i, --ignore-download-error Do not abort if a download error occurs
-v, --version Show version number and quit
-h, --help Show this help and quit
Sources
| Name | Primary | Mirror |
|---|---|---|
| adaway.org | URL | URL |
| AdBlock NoCoin List | URL | URL |
| AdGuard – Simplified | URL | URL |
| disconnect.me – Ad | URL | URL |
| disconnect.me – Malvertising | URL | URL |
| disconnect.me – Malware | URL | URL |
| disconnect.me – Tracking | URL | URL |
| ETH Phishing Detect | URL | URL |
| FadeMind – add.2o7Net | URL | URL |
| FadeMind – add.Dead | URL | URL |
| FadeMind – add.Risk | URL | URL |
| FadeMind – add.Spam | URL | URL |
| KADhosts | URL | URL |
| malwaredomainlist.com | URL | URL |
| malwaredomains.com – Immortal domains | URL | URL |
| malwaredomains.com – Just domains | URL | URL |
| matomo.org – Spammers | URL | URL |
| mitchellkrogza – Badd-Boyz-Hosts | URL | URL |
| pgl.yoyo.org | URL | URL |
| ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch | URL | URL |
| someonewhocares.org | URL | URL |
| spam404.com | URL | URL |
| StevenBlack | URL | URL |
| winhelp2002.mvps.org | URL | URL |
| ZeroDot1 – CoinBlockerLists | URL | URL |
| zeustracker.abuse.ch | URL | URL |
