Adblock Plus

Can you create a version of Adblock Plus that can be loaded onto a Roku via the USB port? That would be awesome!

Pegbyter wrote:Can you create a version of Adblock Plus that can be loaded onto a Roku via the USB port? That would be awesome!

Without knowing more about how Roku works, the best that you can do is load a specially-crafted HOSTS file into its internal filesystem: http://jansal.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/adblock/hosts

Thanks for the file info.. But I'm not a programmer, so I wouldn't know how to compile it. I have a USB port on mine, and a flash drive. So once it's compiled into a Roku readable format all I would have to do is tell it to access the usb port; (easy enough since that program already exists) and tell it to run the file. Any suggestions?

That format for the HOSTS file is readable as-is by any Windows or Unix-based system; what you need to do is copy it to the place where HOSTS files would normally go, probably the file /etc/hosts

but actually accessing the filesystem of the Roku is another matter entirely; perhaps you could remove the hard drive, mount it on a computer that understands its filesystem (probably ext2), and then go from there

Hi,

I block the ads from the channel list page on my roku. I do this by using a custom host record as previously described but rather than try and 'hack' my roku with a custom hostile I take a more targeted approach and add a specific host override on my home router. I've detailed this futher on my blog here: http://blog.mrverrall.co.uk/2013/01/blo ... -menu.html

Hope this helps!

mrverrall wrote: ... 'hack' my roku with a custom hostile ...

Sorry, should read 'custom host file'.

Pegbyter wrote: http://jansal.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/adblock/hosts

Have you an archived version of this? Did check archive.org no joy

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oops necro. misread OP date 2021

block the ads from the channel list page on my roku.