Simple cross-platform and system-wide CLI adblocker
Blokator is hosts-based. The hosts file is a way to map hostnames to IP addresses, which acts like local DNS server.
Blokator can run basically everywhere. These are the tested platforms: - Linux (just works) - BSDs (not that much tested as Linux) - Windows (not tested much) - Redox (basically working)
If you have another init system or networking service, you can restart it manually or even reboot the computer.
After you installed Blokator, you need to sync the hosts files. To sync the hosts files, run Blokator with --sync argument:
blokator --sync
Then you can enable Blokator with --apply argument:
blokator --apply
To add your own hosts file, you can add your repo with --add-repo argument:
blokator --add-repo <URL>
To delete repo you added, you can run Blokator with --del-repo argument:
blokator --del-repo <URL>
To display the help page with all available commands, you can run Blokator with --help argument:
blokator --help
Before you begin, make sure you have installed these things: - Rust - Cargo
First, you need to clone the git repo to your local machine:
git clone https://gitlab.com/Tomkoid/blokator.git
Now CD into that directory:
cd blokator
In that directory we can compile Blokator:
cargo build --release
And install it to the system:
sudo cp target/release/blokator /usr/bin/blokator
You're done now!
At this moment, Blokator is available only in tomkoid-repo for Arch Linux.
Installation guide for tomkoid-repo is in the README.
You can install Blokator with pacman:
sudo pacman -Sy blokator