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Custom AdBlock

This is not something new I am writing today. AdBlocker Plus plugin for chrome, and other browsers blocks ad requests based on the request's domain name or url pattern or some css pattern. The problem with this method is Chrome has no idea of including plugin support for android and therefore ABP as it is wont work. They support a proxy method where all HTTP Requests from browser will alone be routed via the proxy. All ads will be scrubbed by the proxy before sending response to the browser. But ads that are HTTPS and ads on other apps will not be blocked. So I made a domainlist from  https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt . The domainlist is available at  https://github.com/kalyanceg/adblock/blob/master/domains . Note: This might have duplicates and false positives. Now my thought was to return a servfail while the browser/app tries to resolve these domains. As I said a bunch of people has wrote blogs about it, But they were using named as their dns server. I