external filters

[kik0s]

(Jan. 30, 2017 05:13 AM)cattleyavns Wrote:  

(Jan. 29, 2017 03:21 PM)kik0s Wrote:  hey guys,

since privoxy provides the option to use external filters: can someone pleas ehelp me to understand this? i have limited resources to start privoxy. when all my files are bigger then a couple MB my privoxy just does not start.

what i want to do is to load the blacklisted domains from hp hosts database and to block those domains. since the list is about 18mb large it is not possible to load that. can i use the external filter option for it?

best,

chris

external-filter is not what you really want in your case, external-filter is a way for Privoxy to use external application to parse, edit, save content, do many things that Privoxy cannot.

A host file with 18MB file size is not really effective, I think you should use EasyList, just convert it into Privoxy's format using adblock2privoxy https://projects.zubr.me/wiki/adblock2privoxy

actually thats what i was using but the problem is that that tool creates a lot more files but adding all of the action and filter files kills my privoxy. limited ram to load so no way.

@faxtopia thanks for that. will try it. maybe thats the key

edit:
is it possible to block like buttons with hosts file?