Monday, September 17, 2018


ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD

Ubuntu Touch 16.04 for cell phones is out and it's not bad or a 32-bit OS. To add Privacy Enhanced Linux's anti-Google protection, you can hack their /etc/hosts file and add these lines from PELinux 2-14 R3, which is the only "officially" supported version:

127.0.0.1       adwords.google.com
127.0.0.1       pagead.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1       pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1       adservices.google.com       
127.0.0.1       ssl.google-analytics.com    
127.0.0.1       www.google-analytics.com    
127.0.0.1       imageads.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads1.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads2.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads3.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads4.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads5.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads6.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads7.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads8.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       imageads9.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       www.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       show.googleadsenseagent.com
127.0.0.1       partner.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       adopt.specificclick.net
127.0.0.1       clk.atdmt.com
127.0.0.1       spe.atdmt.com
127.0.0.1       0.afs.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1       googleads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1       pubads.g.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1       adserver.adtechus.com
127.0.0.1       aka-cdn-ns.adtechus.com
127.0.0.1       ad.adserverplus.com
127.0.0.1       ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1       engine.adzerk.net

I usually put it somewhere between the IPv4 and IPv6 sections just to keep the file neat but you can put it anywhere. See the pinned comment in this YouBoob video for more info:




Or just open the terminal app and type:
sudo mount -o remount,rw /
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vim