Can't get adblock to work proper

[shaggytwodope at teknik.io]

On 2014-12-18 15:55, dings at umshini-wami.org 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


This works for me, let me know if it doesnt for you. Or isnt the issue.


(also i think i replied to your personal address pls ignore)

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John "ShaggyTwoDope" Jenkins