This might be interesting for people running old computers and by various
reasons do not use corporate web browsers. Of course if you use simple web
browser like #Dillo, #Links2, #Lynx, #w3m and any other, you may still want to block
connections with 3rd party sites. If you run #OpenBSD or #NetBSD then you have
few options:
(1) Use PiHole, Blocky, Gravastar - but this will not help if you are out of
home.
(2) Use unwind - if you are running OpenBSD.
(3) Use hblock or tblock.
Hblock and tblock are bash/python scripts which update /etc/hosts file using
blocklists available in the Internet. Hblock depends only on bash, so it will
work after some tweaks even on OS/2. Tblock depends on python and few its
modules, so on BSDs it needs manual installation, but it is a little more
user-friendly. Refer to: https://github.com/hectorm/hblock and
https://codeberg.org/tblock/tblock for more information! Remember: running
tblock in aggresive mode on Atom N210 will drain computing powers
enough to block your Internet conenction totally.
reasons do not use corporate web browsers. Of course if you use simple web
browser like #Dillo, #Links2, #Lynx, #w3m and any other, you may still want to block
connections with 3rd party sites. If you run #OpenBSD or #NetBSD then you have
few options:
(1) Use PiHole, Blocky, Gravastar - but this will not help if you are out of
home.
(2) Use unwind - if you are running OpenBSD.
(3) Use hblock or tblock.
Hblock and tblock are bash/python scripts which update /etc/hosts file using
blocklists available in the Internet. Hblock depends only on bash, so it will
work after some tweaks even on OS/2. Tblock depends on python and few its
modules, so on BSDs it needs manual installation, but it is a little more
user-friendly. Refer to: https://github.com/hectorm/hblock and
https://codeberg.org/tblock/tblock for more information! Remember: running
tblock in aggresive mode on Atom N210 will drain computing powers
enough to block your Internet conenction totally.