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Something like this should also be applicable for social networks as well. I found this for twitter - https://blocktogether.org/ not sure if it is possible for others like facebook.
How to make a block list: 1) Find a bunch of high-quality block lists on the internet which have been painstakingly curated my their maintainers for many years 2) Combine it all into one big list. Tell everyone that you will quickly whitelist any domains if they are causing breakage. 3) Once enough people start using your list, get an advertiser to pay you to silently remove their domains. If anyone notices, just say…
I can see how it might seem that way — I'm Steven Black. I can point to thousands of combined... * issues https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%... * ...pull requests... https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Acl... * ... and commits https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/commits/master ...that indicate, it's not so easy. The sources we use are all vetted. Some sources are remark…
Consolidated block lists like yours are still important for people who are using the traditional etc/hosts file. I believe the Pihole project would like to focus more on the software and less on the block lists - so they include your list, which has a good track record of vetting sources and responding to issues. I also appreciate that your project has produced its own original block lists (which happen to be included on the Energized list and firebog.net).
I just wish more people would use the original source when possible.
I dislike this Energized list, partly because I had a bad experience using one of their non-primary lists which wasn’t well maintained, and partly because their website (https://energized.pro/) makes it sound like a commercial product.
Are there any Firefox, Ubuntu ppl around? Can you guys bake this stuff (host blacklists) into browser, os autoupdates?
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Me too! It's blocking a whopping 25%-30% of all requests without a single negative change in my browsing comfort.
I really want to use it but it blocks Spotify playlist links when I try to open them from Reddit.
Ideally it leverages things like GitHub Actions (or another CI tool) + GH Pages/GH releases/Netlify to relief the burden of having to host it myself.
The reason for this is so that I can use NetGuard, which allows for only 1 blocklist. Currently I'm flipping between Blokada and DNS66 because they allow for multiple lists.