Vital Notice - 30th of September 2021 Sunsetting

[hl2guide]

I've made the decision to sunset this repository at the end of September 2021.

I've personally moved my set up to a "block all then manually whitelist" solution. It locally uses AdGuard Home far more efficiently and directly.

What I'll do:

modify the script to be more friendly and easier to run before release
open source release the generator (PowerShell and Python based) for the public
commit up until the end of September 2021 and then stop
at the end of September 2021 I'll archive it and will no longer commit to it (no more updates)

My assessment of this repo is that it's large size, and hit-and-miss ratio simply don't meet modern requirements.

Thanks to all who have used this repo 👍

[mikebol]

Now that you'll be blocking all and whitelisting, will you begin to publish a whitelist.txt that others can use? I could see value in a microsoft-whitelist.txt, amazon-whitelist.txt, google-whitelist.txt, etc. for those people who want to enable a series of services they choose to use but while also blocking everything else. Just curious.

[hl2guide]

hmmm, maybe I'll get around to it.

My current approach is very restrictive and personal and really would only be suitable for people who the exact same taste and think like me.

I just block using the rule *.* (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hl2guide/Filterlist-for-AdGuard-or-PiHole/master/Experimental/list.txt)

and then I only whitelist domains I'm okay with (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hl2guide/Filterlist-for-AdGuard-or-PiHole/master/Experimental/whitelist.txt)

Pros:

• AdGuard Home uses far less RAM
• Full exact control of whitelisted sites

Cons:

• Far more annoyance from restricted access
• Whitelisting manually is cumbersome and slow

If I do decide to create a new repo:

• It'll work with AdGuard Home only
• It'll appear here: https://github.com/hl2guide?tab=repositories

[hl2guide]

Fair warning -- Last commit will happen on the 30th Sept 2021.