external filters

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(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