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Absolutely no need to do kernel level packet filtering for this. You can use the absurdly easy hostfile approach, or a simple self-hosted DNS server. This looks entirely LLM generated as well.

Also... who the hell tries to make changes to a user's sudoers file from their install script? This is an awful project.

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The great thing about AI coding is that you never have to learn enough judgment or context to know if something should be written a certain way or not!

The whole thing is AI generated and you can tell from subpar decisions made at every turn.

Can you share a pre made hosts blocklist that is regularly updated & works on Spotify? The ones I've come across are all dated or still let ads through.

there are two linked at the end of tfa

Tfa?

The Fine/F**ing Article.

Its an old slashdot acronym

Do you mean the github project linked in this post? I'm looking for a hosts based Spotify blocklist that would work on Windows HOSTS or a Pi-hole or something like that.

Someone commented in this thread a few days ago (deleted now) that DNS blocklists do not work on Spotify anymore for whatever reason. I would guess your best option might be spotify on web with ublock origin (but I haven't tried it).

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