#hblock — Public Fediverse posts

5 days to go (09.03.2026) and my automated nightly generation of hosts file reaches its first birthday. Though I have been doing it for 6+ years now (Feb 15, 2020), but this is now a big time achievement. Thanks to so many users and the motivation to continue. Thanks to #hectorm for I do use his script (#hblock), with few tweaks of mine.

https://hosts.flossboxin.org.in
https://flossboxin.org.in

#hosts #adblock #flossboxin #fbin #vdbhb59 #nightlybuilds #hblock

🎉

5 days to go (09.03.2026) and my automated nightly generation of hosts file reaches its first birthday. Though I have been doing it for 6+ years now (Feb 15, 2020), but this is now a big time achievement. Thanks to so many users and the motivation to continue. Thanks to #hectorm for I do use his script (#hblock), with few tweaks of mine.

https://hosts.flossboxin.org.in
https://flossboxin.org.in

#hosts #adblock #flossboxin #fbin #vdbhb59 #nightlybuilds #hblock

🎉

5 days to go (09.03.2026) and my automated nightly generation of hosts file reaches its first birthday. Though I have been doing it for 6+ years now (Feb 15, 2020), but this is now a big time achievement. Thanks to so many users and the motivation to continue. Thanks to #hectorm for I do use his script (#hblock), with few tweaks of mine.

https://hosts.flossboxin.org.in
https://flossboxin.org.in

#hosts #adblock #flossboxin #fbin #vdbhb59 #nightlybuilds #hblock

🎉

5 days to go (09.03.2026) and my automated nightly generation of hosts file reaches its first birthday. Though I have been doing it for 6+ years now (Feb 15, 2020), but this is now a big time achievement. Thanks to so many users and the motivation to continue. Thanks to #hectorm for I do use his script (#hblock), with few tweaks of mine.

https://hosts.flossboxin.org.in
https://flossboxin.org.in

#hosts #adblock #flossboxin #fbin #vdbhb59 #nightlybuilds #hblock

🎉

@lexinova @rdns
I use #hblock script, tweaked to my liking. Being a non-dev does not always help to make things easier for me, and I rely on open source stuff, which is great as well. 😃

@linux_pl Ktoś z was bawił się hBlockiem*? Jak to się sprawdza w porównaniu z uBlockiem (poza tym, że działa system-wide, a nie tylko w jednej przeglądarce)?

* „hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file, among other formats, that prevents your system from connecting to them.”

https://github.com/hectorm/hblock

#blokowanieReklam #adBlock #reklamy #malware #tracking #hblock #Linux

@LoboTom Brilliant, never saw it from this perspective before.

#uBlockOrigin #hBlock #ads

Added #Bitwarden #AvesGallery #SimpleScreenRecorder #FlorisBoard #NeoStore to:

#uBlockOrigin #lichess #AutoKey #XScreenSaver #Anki #ArchLinux #Manjaro #KDE #xfce #LyX #InputRemapper #Strawberry #Soulseek #hBlock #Qalculate #CodeSpellChecker #LibreOffice #Geany #Betterbird #TransOver #EnhancerForYT #btop++ #Calibre #Shotcut #Remmina #Transmission #K9Mail #RedMoon #Markor #Livio #Musicolet #LittleFileExplorer #microG #AntennaPod #personalDNSfilter #PanoScrobbler #VivaldiBrowser #Bunnytrack

Added #Bitwarden #AvesGallery #SimpleScreenRecorder #FlorisBoard #NeoStore to:

#uBlockOrigin #lichess #AutoKey #XScreenSaver #Anki #ArchLinux #Manjaro #KDE #xfce #LyX #InputRemapper #Strawberry #Soulseek #hBlock #Qalculate #CodeSpellChecker #LibreOffice #Geany #Betterbird #TransOver #EnhancerForYT #btop++ #Calibre #Shotcut #Remmina #Transmission #K9Mail #RedMoon #Markor #Livio #Musicolet #LittleFileExplorer #microG #AntennaPod #personalDNSfilter #PanoScrobbler #VivaldiBrowser #Bunnytrack

Added #Bitwarden #AvesGallery #SimpleScreenRecorder #FlorisBoard #NeoStore to:

#uBlockOrigin #lichess #AutoKey #XScreenSaver #Anki #ArchLinux #Manjaro #KDE #xfce #LyX #InputRemapper #Strawberry #Soulseek #hBlock #Qalculate #CodeSpellChecker #LibreOffice #Geany #Betterbird #TransOver #EnhancerForYT #btop++ #Calibre #Shotcut #Remmina #Transmission #K9Mail #RedMoon #Markor #Livio #Musicolet #LittleFileExplorer #microG #AntennaPod #personalDNSfilter #PanoScrobbler #VivaldiBrowser #Bunnytrack

I use hBlock, "hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file, among other formats, that prevents your system from connecting to them," on all of my computers. It works well, but almost never too well. Last year, I recounted the story of one time where it did work too well -- when it rendered me unable to purchase a new health insurance plan (thanks to this post, I will remember to temporarily disable it this year).

https://thenewleafjournal.com/hblock-and-my-attempt-to-purchase-health-insurance-in-new-york/

#hblock #adblocking #anecdote #linux #newyork

The story of how my attempt to purchase health insurance in New York hit a brief snag because one part of the Exchange website did not play nicely with hBlock, my hosts blocking solution. I resolved the issue, and that hBlock handles the NYS government is a big plus in my book. There is an open invitation for feedback from people who know way more about this than I do.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/hblock-and-my-attempt-to-purchase-health-insurance-in-new-york/

#adblock #hblock #hosts #manjaro #linux #insurance #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Installed and updated #tblock right now https://codeberg.org/tblock/tblock as an alternative to #hblock

@rf Для блокировки рекламы пробую #hblock https://github.com/hectorm/hblock или всё равно лучше вместе с ним ещё и #µBlock использовать?