Additions and Modifications to Combined Privacy Block Lists Entries on FilterLists

[bongochong]

1. The license for all my filter lists should now be "CPAL-1.0" (Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0). This is because the entire GitHub repository associated with my lists now falls under this license.

2. The "Maintainers" column should be the same for all my lists as well (including the new ones) - "Chongo Bong" (with it linked to my GitHub profile, as it is for most of my lists already).

3. Some of the syntax identifiers are incorrect. The corrections are as follows:

• Combined Privacy Block Lists HOSTS (IPv6) = Hosts (localhost IPv6)
• Combined Privacy Block Lists HOSTS (IPv4 + IPv6) = Hosts (localhost IPv4 + IPv6)

4. The descriptions should now also read as follows:

• Combined Privacy Block Lists HOSTS (IPv4) = "This is a comprehensive hosts file (IPv4) which blocks known ad, exploit, malware, and tracking servers. It is pulled from MVPS, PGL Yoyo, Malware Domain List, Energized and EasyList, along with some supplementary entries for increased protection against telemetry, and additions for mobile platforms. It is then merged, sorted and deduped. This list is compatible with all operating systems that make use of a hosts file (obviously this includes Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux and more). It works great with mobile VPN ad-blocking solutions too."

• Combined Privacy Block Lists HOSTS (IPv6) = "This is a comprehensive hosts file (IPv6) which blocks known ad, exploit, malware, and tracking servers. It is pulled from MVPS, PGL Yoyo, Malware Domain List, Energized and EasyList, along with some supplementary entries for increased protection against telemetry, and additions for mobile platforms. It is then merged, sorted and deduped. This list is compatible with all operating systems that make use of a hosts file (obviously this includes Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux and more). It works great with mobile VPN ad-blocking solutions too."

• Combined Privacy Block Lists HOSTS (IPv4 + IPv6) = "This is a comprehensive hosts file (IPv4 + IPv6) which blocks known ad, exploit, malware, and tracking servers. It is pulled from MVPS, PGL Yoyo, Malware Domain List, Energized and EasyList, along with some supplementary entries for increased protection against telemetry, and additions for mobile platforms. It is then merged, sorted and deduped. This list is compatible with all operating systems that make use of a hosts file (obviously this includes Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux and more). It works great with mobile VPN ad-blocking solutions too."

• Combined Privacy Block Lists IPs DAT-format = "This is a DAT-format IP block list suitable for use in torrent clients like Halite for Windows. The list is merged from BlueTack levels 1 and 2, then deduped and sorted. This will come in especially handy on public trackers."

• Combined Privacy Block Lists IPs P2P-format = "This is a P2P-format IP block list suitable for use in torrent clients like qBitTorrent and Transmission under any OS. The list is merged from BlueTack levels 1 and 2, then deduped and sorted. This will also come in especially handy on public trackers."

5. I have a few new lists as well:
   A. Combined Privacy Block Lists Optimized Windows HOSTS (IPv4)
   B. Combined Privacy Block Lists Optimized Windows HOSTS (IPv4 + IPv6)
   C. Combined Privacy Block Lists CIDR List

The descriptions should read as such:

• A = "This is a hosts file (IPv4) specifically tailored for Windows users, wherein the list is arranged to have seven hosts per line, thus saving space, and preventing the lag that some users experience when they have a large hosts file on that platform. It is culled from the same sources as the other Combined Privacy Block Lists hosts files."

• B = "This is a hosts file (IPv4 + IPv6) specifically tailored for Windows users, wherein the list is arranged to have seven hosts per line, thus saving space, and preventing the lag that some users experience when they have a large hosts file on that platform. It is culled from the same sources as the other Combined Privacy Block Lists hosts files."

• C = "This is a CIDR-format IP block list suitable for routers, older P2P clients and so on, which accept CIDR lists. It is compiled from the same sources as the other IP block lists from Combined Privacy Block Lists, and is likewise deduped + sorted."

The syntax identifiers should be as follows too:

• A = Hosts (localhost IPv4)

• B = Hosts (localhost IPv4 + IPv6)

• C = IPs (IPv4; CIDR only)

Thank you so much for all the hard work that goes into the FilterLists project, and I hope you are all staying safe and healthy!

P.S. The tags for all my hosts lists should be: ads malware privacy phishing and the lone tag for my IP block lists should be: privacy

[DandelionSprout]

It is now underway in #1708.

If you were to want to try to add such info yourself at a future occassion, there's now detailed and simple instructions for it over at #1674 (comment).

And thanks for the kind words. I'm about as safe as one can be, living in a non-crowded part of Norway.

[bongochong]

Thank you @DandelionSprout and @collinbarrett Much appreciated.