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Yeah, but there hasn't been any activity on that issue since April, so I thought he had forgotten about it.

 

Sorry Paul and others. that was my fault.

 

thanks, paul. great vid.

 

On topic again then:

In regard to the malware list I opened a new issue at Gorhill's Github page:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1116

 

Quad9 is less efficient in phishing links than Google Safe Browsing.
In malware links the situation is the opposite.
Both don't block many phishing/malware websites.
Having 2/3 custom malware/phishing lists in UBO can help.

Test and use the finished urls:

http://phishtank.org/phish_search.php?valid=y&active=y&Search=Search

Just read after clicking the mouse in the various malware URL:

https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/browse/

 

i prefer a reliable DNS, not filtering anything for me. if i want a safety dns i would settle on norton, adguard or other similar. so have set my local provider and quad9. neither firefox nor chromium are allowed for DoH because this is undermining my security here.

 

norton cs is discontinued.

 

<offtopic>
What exactly undermines my security when using Quad9 in Firefox DoH implementation, if I may ask?

I read on Wikipedia that Norton DNS was retired on November 15, 2018.
Besides that, it is an American company that has to obey the Patriot Act...
</offtopic>

 

there's gotta be a trade-off between privacy and security. the patriot act is not a threat to law-abiding netizen. the united states, unlike the eu, has no mandatory data retention law for isp's.

oh and i forgot to mention that q9's also proudly an american company.

 

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke/#dns

 

nah, kuketz, dont like him nor his blog. your suggestions is nice but i discovered some disappointments:
https://digitalcourage.de/support/zensurfreier-dns-server

https://dismail.de/info.html#dns

i did not check the others

other lists from my bookmarks
https://serpentsembrace.wordpress.com/datenschutz/dns-server/
https://www.ungefiltert-surfen.de//nameserver/de.html
https://public-pihole.com/dns-servers/
(current status: https://wl.hetrixtools.com/r/685504607a3b4784bf007c1723b830a2/)

i remember some more servers for public-pihole, but that was in 2019.

 

I also deleted all 3 Multipurpose predefined lists.
Dan pollock's Host File (Ads + malware + Privacy) has not updated since June 8.
MVPS Host (ads + Malware + privacy) has not updated since June 14th.
Peter Lowe's Ad and tracking server list (Ads + Privacy) from 18 June.

I inserted 1Hosts Mini (Ads + Crypto + malware + privacy) updated on June 20th.

The crypto function allows you to eliminate the presence of a possible "NoCoin List" not updated since April 30th.

 

Thank you for this nice information, Sampei Nihira. I'd already disabled Dan Pollock's Host File but it seemed reasonable to consider disabling one or both of the others if alternatives exist. It seems chromium Edge loads almost instantly for me now after this change. Wondering if the manager of uBlock Origin would consider "cleaning house" and replacing out-dated default filter lists (like the malware domains, maybe?) with some of these great newer ones, especially those that combine two or more filtering capabilities.

 

Thanks for your feedback.

 

In my opinion, hosts file lists that target mainly ad- and tracking domains don't have to be updated as frequently as malware and phishing ones.

Also, the bulk quantity of these ad- and tracking shenanigans are already dealt with efficiently by the other built in lists.

 

In regard to the malware domains, he is in fact already considering that:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/984
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1116

 

Great, that's encouraging news! I'm a basic user but even so, it seems there's some redundancy and maybe even a little bloat that can always be whittled down and/or replaced for better blocking, efficiency and performance. I'll look forward to any updates, for sure.

 

uBlockO legacy v1.16.4.21 Released (June 20, 2020)

Spoiler: Changes v1.16.4.21

1.16.4.21

• Prevent exceptions when several conflicting rules result in an empty filter
• Improve validation of CSS selector-based cosmetic filters
• Map upward to xpath using filter syntax converter
• Update scriptlets from the upstream repo
  • Replace requestAnimationFrame-if.js with no-requestAnimationFrame-if.js
  • Improve set-constant.js scriptlet
  • Improve window.open-defuser scriptlet
  • Add remove-class scriptlet (alias: rc)
  • Add new scriptlet to allow blocking Amazon's apstag.js
  • Bring fingerprint2.js scriptlet up to date
  • Improve logging capabilities of json-prune scriptlet
  • Add uBO: prefix to logged output in some scriptlets
• Remove obsolete filters from stock filter lists
  • hpHosts
  • Disconnect Malvertising
  • Adblock Warning Removal

 

That should be v1.16.4.21

 

Of the Multipurpose lists, only Peter Lowe's list is still recommended in medium mode.

Question re coin blocker lists: Is it good to include in custom filters?
https://zerodot1.gitlab.io/CoinBlockerListsWeb/downloads.html? Which one(s)?
I do also have the 'NoCoin List' - will untick ithat one ...

 

Don't worry about bloat to much:
"While regular version contains roughly >145K filters, uBO can easily handle half a million filters".

Spoiler

 

In my opinion, both lists are not indispensable.
You already have 1 Hosts (mini) + uBlock filters - Resource abuse that do this job very well.
Indeed personally I would also prefer to eliminate the crypto functionality from 1 Hosts (mini).

 

is there a known reason why current ublock need to start up a longer period then its prequel 1.24.4 on android (6)? (Fennec 68.9.0)
while 1.24.4 needs 15 seconds to let firefox load a page 1.27.10 need 20/25 seconds. i did not measure it exactly buts its longer.

it did not happend before in the beginning of this year, and not in 2019. only in the last 2 or 3 month and i dont know why. i changed nothing on my android and the amount of tasks running and memory are similar or same. uninstalling sophos did not change anything. firefox is not filtered by adguard.

 

I'm finding it nearly impossible and confusing to settle on a set of filter lists to use, as there have been numerous combinations of lists recommended over the months in this thread by so many members. The current lists I'm using, which I just modified yesterday, are in the attached screenshot. I don't know if they're satisfactory enough or overkill. Maybe it's better just to use the included defaults?

 

I think the Notracking blocklist is just overkill.
I looked at which lists it consists of, and it includes several abandoned or poorly maintained sources.

uBo in medium mode, or normal mode in conjunction with uMatrix will filter out most third party cruft.
You will want to keep Annoyance lists, I think.

Blocking so called first party trackers is important as well (https://hostfiles.frogeye.fr/firstparty-trackers.txt).
See: https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cl...disguise-of-third-party-trackers-195205dc522a

Spoiler: Screenshot setup

Against recent malware (updated twice a day):
Online Malicious URL Blocklist.
( although not really necessary on your Debian system, I guess)