How to make the changes made to the config file take effect?

[alectogeek]

I updated the abblock_lists and want them to take effect. How do I do that?

[davidemyers]

There is no mechanism in the Algo scripts to update a deployed server other than adding and removing users.

To change the lists on an already deployed server, SSH to the server and edit /usr/local/sbin/adblock.sh.

[alectogeek]

@davidemyers Thanks for your response!
I can see the following line in that file: BLOCKLIST_URLS="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts ".
And my new list is:
adblock_lists:

• "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/data/StevenBlack/hosts"
• "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.2o7Net/hosts"
• "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Dead/hosts"
• "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Risk/hosts"
• "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Spam/hosts"
• "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/cname-trackers/master/combined_disguised_trackers_justdomains.txt"
• "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitchellkrogza/Badd-Boyz-Hosts/master/hosts"
• "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shreyasminocha/shady-hosts/main/hosts"

How should I convert them into the variable? Should I use a comma?
And for context: I'm doing this because I'm a developer and I need access to firebase, adwords, amplitude analytics etc.
Maybe be I will turn off ad blocking at all. Is it enough just to edit config files for it? Should I reboot the machine?

[davidemyers]

Separate the list URLs with spaces.

To turn off ad blocking altogether edit /etc/dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy.toml and in the [blacklist] section comment out the line blacklist_file = 'blacklist.txt'. Then restart dnscrypt-proxy:

sudo systemctl restart dnscrypt-proxy

[alectogeek]

Thanks a lot!