Python script to update hosts file for ad blocking

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jaywink | # 1 | 2010-07-23, 19:10 | Report

Created a small Python script to download the latest hosts file from mvps.org and add the changes (or replace previously added) to /etc/hosts.

Myself I have the script scheduled for daily updates every night with Alarmed, and also on my home Ubuntu via Cron.

[edit: dead blog lnk removed]

More on ad blocking via a hosts file on Maemo: http://wiki.maemo.org/Ad_blocking

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Edit: script in github: https://github.com/jaywink/gethosts

Last edited by jaywink; 2014-03-23 at 20:05.

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marmistrz | # 2 | 2014-03-18, 16:33 | Report

The link is dead

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jaywink | # 3 | 2014-03-23, 20:02 | Report

Yeah my old blog is dead, dumped it in github here: https://github.com/jaywink/gethosts

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