StevenBlack
Google/FAANG blocklist
Hey there and thanks a lot for providing this awesome blocklist.
I'm on a quest to regain control of my user data and improve my online privacy. I noticed that the entirety of Facebook seems covered by the ads+social list but that Google services outside of adsense are not part of any list yet. I understand that this may be out of scope for the project and that google is not a social media provider (ever since Google+ died), but would there be interest in a list blocking big companies and their more obscure tracking and service domains? (*google.com, g.co, amazon, etc.)
Maybe I'm just paranoid and adsense is enough to stop data collection, but I wanted to make the suggestion. Thank you
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Hi @ChaosNicro thank you for your kind words.
Yes, I've been thinking of exactly this over the past few weeks.
I definitely want to see more granularity of combinatorics of the various source lists, leading to more options for end products.
Presently we have a base list and four optional extensions that are combined in various ways to offer 16 different lists.
If we go to five extensions, that number grows to 32.
With six extensions, that gives us 64 possible offerings.
So we need to think about scale effects.
I'm also interested in better gauging effect and growth.
For example, if we add or drop a particular source, what's the effect of that? Because all our source lists overlap to some degree. So if we add this 10,000 domain source list, how many net domains gained is that? Similarly if we drop this other 10,000 domain source list, how many domains do we actually lose?
As for growth this is expanding on Issue #2014 to cover the historical growth of all our source lists, not just the size of the end product as shown now on the repository home page. I want to be able to promptly react to a source list growing out of control.
So lots to think about.
