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Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.

Table of contents

• What is this for?
• Is it safe to use?
• Nightly builds
• Installation
• Usage
  • Script arguments
  • Preserve content
  • Run preview
• Sources
• Disclaimer
• License

What is this for?

This POSIX-compliant shell script, designed for Unix-like systems, gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file (alternative formats are also supported) that prevents your system from connecting to them.

Is it safe to use?

Absolutely, this script selects only the domain names for each source, so if a domain name is redirected to a rogue server your system will not be affected. In the worst scenario you can lose access to a legitimate domain name due a false positive, but you can reverse it by adding that domain to the whitelist.

Nightly builds

I provide nightly builds of the hosts file and other formats, including installers for Windows (batch file) and Android (flashable zip).

URL
https://hblock.molinero.xyz

Installation

curl -o /tmp/hblock 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hectorm/hblock/v1.6.7/hblock' \
  && echo '904ab4a2b58b8d5512136d7400f3a0c875d58be1e26933a70e3f9bc229b1094d  /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

Note: you can use this Systemd timer to regularly update the hosts file for new additions.

Optionally, it is possible to use NPX to run hBlock without installation

npx hblock

Usage

Script arguments

You can also change the default behavior using these options:

Usage: hblock [options...]
 -O, --output <FILE>
        Output file location
        (default: /etc/hosts)
 -R, --redirection <REDIRECTION>
        Redirection for all entries in the blocklist
        (default: 0.0.0.0)
 -H, --header <HEADER>
        Content to be included at the beginning of the file
        (e.g. "$(cat header.txt)")
 -F, --footer <FOOTER>
        Content to be included at the end of the file
        (e.g. "$(cat footer.txt)")
 -T, --template <TEMPLATE>
        POSIX BREs replacement applied to each entry
        \1 = <DOMAIN>, \2 = <REDIRECTION>
        (default: \2 \1)
 -C, --comment <COMMENT>
        Character used for comments
        (default: #)
 -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
 -b, --backup [DIRECTORY]
        Make a time-stamped backup in <DIRECTORY>
        (default: output file directory)
 -l, --lenient
        Match all entries from sources, regardless of their IP
        (default: 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1 or none)
 -i, --ignore-download-error
        Do not abort if a download error occurs
 -c, --color <auto|true|false>
        Colorize the output
        (default: auto)
 -q, --quiet
        Suppress non-error messages
 -v, --version
        Show version number and quit
 -h, --help
        Show this help and quit

Preserve content

This script replaces the hosts file of your system, if you want to preserve part of its content, you should wrap that content with the following structure:

# <custom>
...
# </custom>

Run preview

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
EasyList	URL	URL
EasyPrivacy	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

Disclaimer

This script, by default, replaces the /etc/hosts file of your system. I am not responsible for any damage or loss, always make backups.

License

See the license file.