Planned phase-out of specific blocklist formats (Subdomains/Hosts)

[hagezi]

Due to high maintenance requirements, increased repository size, and the limited blocking efficiency of formats that must explicitly list all possible subdomains, support for the following formats is planned to be discontinued:

• Domains/Subdomains: Blocky (versions <0.23), Diversion (versions <5), OpenSnitch, PersonalBlocklist, pfBlockerNG
• Hosts (including compressed): AdAway, uMatrix, DNS66, NetGuard, Hostfile, Linux

To gauge ongoing usage and compare these with more efficient compressed formats (which do not list subdomains), a community survey has been launched.

Your feedback is appreciated and will help inform next steps: Diskussion/Poll: #7836