First, clone the Mozilla focus project and make it fetch its list:
$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/focus.git
$ cd focus
$ ./checkout.sh
$ cd Lists
This delivers several JSON formatted files, of which we are going to use disconnect-advertising.json
. We'll filter out the good bits using jq
, and create a Lua representation:
(
echo 'return{'
for a in $(jq '.[].trigger["url-filter"]' disconnect-advertising.json | cut -f3 -d? | sed 's:\\\\.:.:g' | sed s:\"::)
do
echo \"$a\",
done
echo '}'
) > blocklist.lua # ends up as return{"dom1.com", "dom2.com", .... "dom3.com"}
Next, we use this small file adblock.lua
to tell the PowerDNS Recursor 4.x what to do:
adservers=newDS()
function preresolve(dq)
if(not adservers:check(dq.qname)) then
return false
end
if(dq.qtype == pdns.A) then
dq:addAnswer(dq.qtype, "127.0.0.1")
elseif(dq.qtype == pdns.AAAA) then
dq:addAnswer(dq.qtype, "::1")
end
return true
end
adservers:add(dofile("blocklist.lua"))
Next add to recursor.conf:
lua-dns-script=adblock.lua
Now fire up the PowerDNS Recursor and access to the domain names from the Mozilla focus project will be replaced by a link to 127.0.0.1. Note: the actual blocking strategy used by Mozilla is a lot smarter, and includes knowledge of the website containing the ad!
You refer to the
disconnect-advertising.json
above the second code block. Do I open this file, delete the contents and add the contents of the second code block and save it with the same name. Or am I appending the contents of the second code block at the end of the existing contents of thedisconnect-advertising.json
file?Also, am I creating the
adblock.lua
file in the~/focus/Lists
directory and filling the file with the contents of the third code block?