Scripting

adaway – stop all ads from your system (including YouTube flash ads)

A simple shell script which updates your hosts file with different sources of ad-server list.

Why this adaway?

adaway.org provides an apk for android environment. But for Mac, Linux or Windows we need to do it manually.

So this script will be very useful to do the job.

How to install this script?

sh adaway.sh

or

curl -L https://github.com/tuxian-root/adaway/raw/master/adaway.sh | sh

For more details and source code check the following site

https://github.com/tuxian-root/adaway

4 comments on “adaway – stop all ads from your system (including YouTube flash ads)

  1. Good question. Absolutely nothing. This method only blocks the path so powershell could be run from another location. There is no 100% full proof method but this would stop a lot of common attacks that use PowerShell. Gloriana Rowan Lussi

  2. Greetings! Very helpful advice within this article! It is the little changes which will make the greatest changes. Many thanks for sharing! Claudina Hermy Bysshe

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