[Release] System Hosts Blocker - A lightweight ad/malware host blocker.

Hello!

I have decided to make a tweak based off of MinimalHostsBlocker that is constantly updated and kept as lightweight as possible. In this tweak, I have used the host file that I created a few months back that you can find here, on my Github page.

All ad domains were found by me and not copy/pasted from other sources. However, malware domains were found from malwaredomainlist.com and seem to be doing their jobs pretty well and I have not needed to make any changes.

The installation process for this tweak was created using the open source installer of MinimalHostsBlocker written by arcetera, and would not be possible without it. Thank you!

You can download SystemHostsBlocker from my repo: http://bit.ly/2ljDcLq

If it gives you some kind of APT error when installing, just ignore it. I have no idea why this happens but it seems to install just fine.

If you'd like to help SystemHostsBlocker, you can submit pull requests on the Github Repo with added ad or malware domains, or open a new issue.

Thanks!

Edit: Version 0.0.2~1 includes blocking OTA updates from downloading and some small installation errors. Thanks for the request!

Also, package notifications are off so whenever you'd like to update you can just go to my repo and 're-install' instead of having to update constantly.

EDIT 2: Some people have been reporting about an archive error when installing and changes tab in Cydia going blank after installing. If you are having these issues please leave a comment with a tweak list and the error you are receiving. I have not been able to reproduce this issue myself.

I have pulled it for a few minutes while I work out the cause.

Anybody having errors try these commands in MTerminal:

su dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq com.nathanaccidentally.systemhostblocker --configure -a apt-get update killall -9 SpringBoard 

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