On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:08:17 +0100 Florian Bruhin <[email protected]> wrote:
> * [email protected] <[email protected]> [2014-12-18 > 17:25:54 -0800]: > > On 2014-12-18 15:55, [email protected] wrote: > > >It seems to be a problem for me to get adblocking to work proper. > > >I added a few more urls to the list in the > > >~/.config/qutebrowser/qutebrowser.conf but I can't get rid of some > > >ads. I tried to add some sites to a file called hosts in my > > >~/.config/qutebrowser but that also didn't work. How do you guys > > >block ads? My host-block-lists array in the qutebrowser.conf looks > > >like this: > > > > > > > > >host-block-lists = > > >http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt,http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts,http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.zip,http://malwaredomains.lehigh.edu/files/justdomains.zip,http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&mimetype=plaintext,http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp,https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/fanboy-social.txt,https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt,https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt,https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylistgermany.txt,http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?showintro=0;hostformat=hosts,/home/dings/.config/qutebrowser/hosts > > > > > >cheers > > > > What format is your hosts file in, it needs to be as such: > > > > 127.0.0.1 funkydomain.com > > Either that, or just a list of domains without any IP - both should > work (optionally zipped). > > Adblock lists *won't* work (yet) as they're more complicated than > that. Issue 29 has some more information: > > https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/issues/29 > > You'll need to use file:///home/dings/.config/qutebrowser/hosts for a > local file to work. > > I just opened https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/issues/378 > to change that though :) > > Also, don't forget to run :adblock-update after setting the option. > > Out of curiosity: What are the pages you see ads on? > > Florian > I removed the adblock lists and did :adblock-update and also corrected the path to my local file. After that it worked proper. So I also removed the local file entry to figure out that it isn't needed. So :adblock-update did the trick. Thanks for giving me that hint! I still see ads on leo.org which. The pages I saw ads on were gmx.net and eblogx.com. (The last one I visited naturally only for scientifical purposes…) cheers Tim
