{"id":73,"date":"2021-03-08T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/?p=73"},"modified":"2021-03-08T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:00:50","slug":"adaway-as-an-app-to-be-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/adaway-as-an-app-to-be-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"Adaway as an App to be installed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have initially created a post related to this, in which you will have a script file which needs to be manually executed. So I have developed an Apple Script to make it run from launchpad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tuxian-root\/adaway\/blob\/master\/Adaway.app.zip\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tuxian-root\/adaway\/blob\/master\/Adaway.app.zip\">adaway.app<\/a> to download the compressed file. You can just download this compressed file, extract and copy to Applications folder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will create an entry similar to what you can see below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.17.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74\" width=\"157\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.17.45-PM.png 338w, https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.17.45-PM-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.17.45-PM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This will have two user interactive inputs from the user<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"838\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.21.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.21.20-PM.png 838w, https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.21.20-PM-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.21.20-PM-768x247.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><figcaption>1. User Consent to update the host file<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"838\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.00-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.00-PM.png 838w, https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.00-PM-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.00-PM-768x249.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><figcaption>2. Whether to take the back up of existing content of hosts file or not<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Few other screenshots from the app<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.36-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.36-PM.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.36-PM-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"832\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.56-PM.png 832w, https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.56-PM-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-08-at-6.22.56-PM-768x249.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>User will be asked for the root user password in order to update the content of \/etc\/hosts file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have initially created a post related to this, in which you will have a script file which needs to be manually executed. So I have developed an Apple Script to make it run from launchpad. Click adaway.app to download the compressed file. You can just download this compressed file, extract and copy to Applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,17,16],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sbaranidharan.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}