Host-RS

Block Website, Ads, Social, Porn, Fakenews, Gambling, Spam sites and website redirector.

[!NOTE] Administrator privileges required to perform any block or unblock operation.

[!NOTE] This application does not block YouTube's ads.

Installation

cargo install host-rs

Install from source code on Linux

git clone https://github.com/BiswajitThakur/host-rs
cd host-rs
make setup build
sudo make install

Install from precompiled binary

1. Click here to Download - download sutable binary for your system
2. cd ~/Downloads/ - Go to the location of the binarry file
3. chmod +x installer_host-rs_*.sh - Add executable permission
4. sudo ./installer_host-rs_*.sh - Execute

Features of Host-RS

• Block websites
• Unblock websites
• Redirect website
• Block Ads
• Unblock ads
• Block all porn sites
• Unblock porn websites
• Block fakenews websites
• Unblock fakenews websites
• Block all social websites
• Unlock social websites
• Block gambling websites
• Unblock gambling websites

Help

> host-rs --help
Usage: host-rs [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -b, --block-web <block-web>...                    Block websites.
  -u, --unblock-web <unblock-web>...                Unblock websites.
      --add-redirect <add-redirect> <add-redirect>  Redirect website
      --rm-redirect <rm-redirect>...                remove from redirect
      --block-ads                                   Block Ads.
      --unblock-ads                                 Unblock all ads.
      --block-porn                                  Block all porn sites.
      --unblock-porn                                Unblock porn websites.
      --block-fakenews                              Block fakenews websites.
      --unblock-fakenews                            Unblock fakenews websites.
      --block-social                                Block all social websites.
      --unblock-social                              Unlock social websites.
      --block-gambling                              Block gambling websites.
      --unblock-gambling                            Unblock gambling websites.
      --update-self                                 Update if available.
      --remove-self                                 Uninstall
      --update-sources                              Update host sources if available.
  -h, --help                                        Print help
  -V, --version                                     Print version

Examples

Block web

host-rs --block-web <hostname0 or url0> <hostname1 or url1> ...

or

host-rs -b <hostname0 or url0> <hostname1 or url1> ...

or

host-rs --bw <hostname0 or url0> <hostname1 or url1> ...

Unblock web

host-rs --unblock-web <hostname0 or url0> <hostname1 or url1> ...

or

host-rs -u <hostname0 or url0> <hostname1 or url1> ...

or

host-rs --uw <hostname0 or url0> <hostname1 or url1> ...

Redirect websites

host-rs --add-redirect <hostname0> <hostname1>

or

host-rs --ar <hostname0> <hostname1>

In above example, <hostname1> redirected to <hostname0>

Remove Redirect

host-rs --rm-redirect <hostname0> <hostname1> ...

or

host-rs --rr <hostname0> <hostname1> ...

Block ads

host-rs --block-ads

or

host-rs --ba

Unblock ads

host-rs --unblock-ads

or

host-rs --ua

or

host-rs --uba

Block porn

host-rs --block-porn

or

host-rs --bp

Unblock porn

host-rs --unblock-porn

or

host-rs --up

or

host-rs --ubp

Block fakenews

host-rs --block-fakenews

or

host-rs --bf

Unblock fakenews

host-rs --unblock-fakenews

or

host-rs --uf

or

host-rs --ubf

Block social

host-rs --block-social

or

host-rs --bs

Unblock social

host-rs --unblock-social

or

host-rs --us

or

host-rs --ubs

Block gambling

host-rs --block-gambling

or

host-rs --bg

Unblock gambling

host-rs --unblock-gambling

or

host-rs --ug

or

host-rs --ubg

Update host sources

host-rs --update-sources

Update

This features is not implemented yet.

host-rs --update

or

host-rs --update-self

Uninstall

host-rs --remove-self

or

host-rs --uninstall