Block ads

block ads

via /etc/hosts

I push this out via puppet to linux machins:

# blacklist ad servers
127.0.0.1 static.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 sharing.wane.com
127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 showads.pubmatic.com
127.0.0.1 www.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ct1.addthis.com
127.0.0.1 liveviewer.ez.no
127.0.0.1 s7.addthis.com
127.0.0.1 www.googletagmanager.com
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 analytics.spongecell.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 a.adroll.com
127.0.0.1 cdn.atdmt.com

youtube ads on android

should I just install an android ad blocker app? Nah, I don't want to manage every device on the network.

proxy with ad blocking

maybe something like this http://ralf.schaeftlein.de/2013/07/07/ad-block-with-squid3-and-quintolabs-instead-of-adblock-plus/

Eh, I don't like qlproxy much, so I'll just try using squid, apache, and iptables to make a transparent proxy, since I have all those components installed already.

It was sufficient to use squid in transparent proxy mode with a few ad server domains being blocked. So iptables redirects all outbound traffic to port 80 to the proxy.

This reference was helpful: http://tuxnetworks.blogspot.com/2012/07/squid-3-transparent-proxy.html