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Automatically updated, moderated and optimized lists for blocking ads, trackers, malware and other garbage
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release auto-update script? #62

Closed craftyguy closed 6 years ago

craftyguy commented 6 years ago

Would you mind making the script you use for auto-updating available for others to use? I would like to expand on this project some and be more aggressive in blocking domains that you have whitelisted (e.g. facebook).

mister2d commented 6 years ago

This is a simple script I came up with on my CentOS 7 box. Just put the script inside of one of your cron folders. I inserted mine into /etc/cron.weekly.

#!/bin/bash

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/master/domains.txt > /etc/dnsmasq-blocklist-domains.txt && \

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/master/hostnames.txt > /etc/dnsmasq-blocklist-hostnames.txt && \

systemctl restart dnsmasq
craftyguy commented 6 years ago

Ah, no, I mean the script that the author is using to make daily updates to this repo, that is assembling the hostname.txt and domain.txt files here.. I'm assuming @notracking is not manually creating these files every day manually and pushing them but is using a script...

mister2d commented 6 years ago

I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Mausy5043 commented 6 years ago

From a purely academic perspective I too am very interested in the sources used to create these lists. But I assume they have not been released for good reasons.

@craftyguy : You might want to take a look at my USS Cygnus repo.
The freebsd branch hasn't seen some work for the last few weeks. It's what I used before I discovered this repo. 😉 I don't want to pretend completeness or fitness for use. But you might find it helpful if you need a springboard.
The OPNsense branch "just" downloads and installs the lists from this repo.
The master branch is a really old development version of what I used when I still had a Pi-hole, hence the repo's name.

craftyguy commented 6 years ago

But I assume they have not been released for good reasons.

Any reasons I can think of for refusing to release the sources for the script(s) are big red flags indicating these lists cannot be trusted :stuck_out_tongue:

Hopefully I am wrong though, and these can be provided!

notracking commented 6 years ago

Hello and thank you for your interest in our blocklist!

As this question has been asked before and my comments are still valid.. I will forward you to https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/issues/3

Since this blocklist is hosted on Github in a human readable form, it's very easy to audit. I can only encourage anyone to do so (like so many have already!).

craftyguy commented 6 years ago

that's unfortunate.