Suggestion: commercial use friendly version?

[flatsiedatsie]

I've done a search, but couldn't find anything, so here's my suggestion:

It would be great if there could be a version of the main list (adware + malware) that is OK for commercial use.

I work on a plugin for an open source smart home controller which could integrate your list. But of course I can't guarantee that all the users of the controller will use it in a non-commercial setting.

As far as I can tell it would only mean excluding two sources:

• MVPS hosts file
• Dan Pollock

Having such a version might speed up adoption by commercial parties too? The more people are protected, the better.

I know I could run the script myself without the NC source but I thought it would be valuable to have something like that available in a central trusted source.

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[flatsiedatsie]

I did a quick test. The resulting hosts file still contained 145.000+ domains.

[StevenBlack]

Hello @flatsiedatsie thank you for this.

Well if it's any help, I am this close 🤏🏻 to dropping the MVPs hosts file from this amalgamated list because it's effectively abandonware at this point.

[flatsiedatsie]

Sorry to hear that.

I suspect Dan Pollock's list is stil relevant though?

So the question remains :-)

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[StevenBlack]

Good bot!

But I want to keep this issue active.

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