sylgauthier / hosts

a sane, unbloated and modular hosts generator

Description

This is a small and efficient hosts file generator, that lets you select categories of websites you want to filter and redirect to 0.0.0.0

Configuration

Before anything, edit the select file to select website categories that you want to filter. This file should have one directory name per line, the directories are the ones contained in the modules directory. For example, to ban all malware, spying, tracking, scamming website (contained in base) as well as gambling and facebook and reddit but keep other social media, your select file should look like:

base/
gambling/
social/facebook
social/reddit

You can then allow specific websites included in a banned category by editing the unselect file. For instance, if you banned all social media by adding a line social/ in the select file, but you still want to use Whatsapp, your unselect file should look like:

social/whatsapp

You can also specify custom redirections in the header/hosts file, that will be appended at the top of the final hosts file.

Installation

Once you have configured your select and unselect files, simply run:

sudo make install