Feature Request: Temporarily disable adsorber

[eksperimental]

There are times when I need to temporarily disable Adsorber, just to check a website the way it normally is, or sometimes when I need to follow a redirected link which its URL is blocked.
This feature could convert to comments all relevant entries.. and un-comment then once re-enabled.

It could also be a feature like,, disable for X amount of time (default 5 minutes).

[stablestud]

Hi @eksperimental,

For this purpose there's the option restore
From the usage:

restore - restore hosts file to its original state
           (it does not remove the scheduler, this should be used temporary)

That means:

• to disable Adsorber run: sudo adsorber restore
• afterwards to re-enable Adsorber run:
  • sudo adsorber update - pull newest hosts and add them to the /etc/hostsfile

[eksperimental]

Sounds like a hack,
I think we could have two new commands more aligned to the action of systemd.

stop - disable the systemd services and disables the entries in the host fles.
start - set it back up

[stablestud]

I kinda like that idea, so there should be the following new operations (actually aliases to existing ones) for alignment with Systemd: - `adsorber enable` as `adsorber setup` - `adsorber disable` stays the same - `adsorber start` as `adsorber update` - `adsorber stop` as ` adsorber restore` ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

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[stablestud]

But I wouldn't disable the Systemd service with `adsorber stop` as there is `adsorber disable` which does exactly that.

[eksperimental]

But I wouldn't disable the Systemd service with adsorber stop as there is adsorber disable which does exactly that.

enable installs the systemd services, disable removes them.
start will start the system services plus leave the working code in hosts.
while stop will comment out the entires in host and stop the running service.

[eksperimental]

NOTE: I am not a systemd expert. that I just my vague assumption of how they work.

UPDATE updates the host files. I think we should not use it for when we want to temporarily block/unblock connections

[stablestud]

For me the analogy of "stop" and "start" is about filtering, not the Systemd service. - "start" filtering of ads - "stop" filtering of ads Therefore I suggest changing it like my in my previous message.

[stablestud]

@eksperimental release it out.
What do you think?

Can this be closed?

[eksperimental]

Sorry, I was busy with other stuff, I got sidetracked..
I will run the new release and give you my feedback so we can close this issue if it's all good

thank you.!

[eksperimental]

I think start should be different from update.

start / stop should work in the blink of an eye. just enabling/disabling the host entries..

[eksperimental]

also, the README instructions should include instructions for UPDATING adsorber, not only for installing.

[eksperimental]

Another action that could be added is status to check whether adsorber is running or not.

[stablestud]

also, the README instructions should include instructions for UPDATING Adsorber, not only for installing.

A small new release for Adsorber is coming through soon. I improved the updating capabilities of the install script.
Now existing configuration won't be overwritten.
This will ease up UPDATING and nothing special must be done to preserve the existing config.

Therefore UPDATING will be the same as installing Adsorber :)