For the commercial version of eBlocker we had licensed squidblacklist.org as part of the parental controls filters.
Today we wanted to license these again (with your donations) but paypal throws an error. After some research it seams that the founder has passed away last year - and this project has died as well(?).
Is anyone aware whats going on and/or can make recommendations which lists could be licensed instead?
Have found this on FB https://www.facebook.com/squidblacklist/
Hello, everybody. Our friend, Ben Nichols, has passed away earlier this year and Squidblacklist cannot accept any new memberships at this time. If you were a customer or a friend, please visit his family's memorial page:
https://www.forevermissed.com/benjamin-earnest-nichols/…
I have requested help from his family for updating his website which I currently don't have access to do. If you require technical assistance, I can try my best. I really only worked on the logic for producing the lists though and am not as intimate with the hardware like Ben was. I can be reached at weaknetlabs (at) gmail (dot) com.
~Douglas Berdeaux
Hello @Benne,
the thing is to have something reliable and up to date.
The problem is to get a category blacklist that does the job reliable.
One thing I know is that Cisco Umbrella, Sophos and Symantec Bluecoat do there job very Good. Especially Cisco Umbrella works very closely with the Cisco domain reputation site talosintelligence. The other I know of is Malwarepatrol.
I know it does not answer your question but there I would go professional to have a quality list that does it properly.
Best regards
Eli.
I totally agree. We need professionally maintained lists to get a professional protection. We've been in touch with Malwarepatrol for the malware lists and the funding for this is rising 😀. But this will probably not cover the cost for the "big players". For example Kaspersky asked a mid 5-digit yearly amount plus revenue share in the past... same with others...
I'll set up a task in the active supporters forum if someone has time for taking care of this.
@all: If you feel like this is your cup of tea - please let me know and I'm happy to grant access to the active supporters forum.
I do not know if that can be used but found this -> http://squidguard.mesd.k12.or.us/
and more... -> http://www.squidguard.org/blacklists.html
We've now integrated https://dsi.ut-capitole.fr/blacklists/index_en.php and feel this is a good alternative. Please let us know what you think.
Hello @Benne
I checked the List and have to say it is huge...
A huge BUT is hidden in there as well and I do not know how this will impact the performance of eBlocker?
Since these are "explicit" domains that it blocks it needs all variants to function properly - My question is and as a example I use LDAP - So If a query is going on it will siff thru every entry as fast as possible?!
- Would it not be better to implement REGEX to minimize the List size and setup Rules?
Example:
^http://.*\.*example\.com/*.*^https://.*\.*example\.com/*.*
Like this we can ramp up the performance and have better control on exclusions.
Of course I understand that something like this does not exist as a all ready done thing.
As a solution would it not be great to have a script go thru such a list and convert it to Regex and slim down the URLs by allot? Since I do not have advanced Programming skills I just can imagine that a javascript could go thru the urls - collect all duplicate url domains and convert them to REGEX.
What I mean is input list "you" provided from "Universite..." and optimize it thru REGEX. Like this we have the power to exclude specific things much more... and make REGEX a standard on the eBlocker platform.
Smaller footprint more power better privacy together! 😉
Best regards
Eli.
No need to worry: eBlockerOS uses highly optimized Bloom filters for matching all domains. It's not a "one by one" matching algorithm...
To my computer science knowledge (which is surely a little outdated) REGEX patterns are even worse from a performance standpoint.
But the really bad part in this particular case: It's lot of work to produce a REGEX list from the given and daily updated (and yes very comprehensive) list. This transformation needs to be implemented by "someone" - and I would doubt anyone would tackle this as results wouldn't make eBlockerOS really better.
AND most important: This list is used for parental controls only at the moment. So the assumed performance lack is with the kids only 😉
BTW: eBlockerOS "understands" lists containing patterns (like easylist format) and these are used for privacy already.
Couldn't the "Suggestion regarding Blocklists and costs" (DuckDuckGo) from Ulmisch be one of the solutions. I appreciate the need for quality-lists, but i seem to note a trend toward commercial list (only?) whereas the eBlocker changed to open source.
Sounds like hopping on two minds.
hi, is there anything to do for me to get the UT1 Blacklist in parental control blacklists? I habe an eBlocker Family edition (official license). so I am not sure if I habe to something with my device to get it. And if I should have it already, how is the UT1 blacklist called in the blacklists?
Thank you in advance
Jox
@robfranssen-fr
Absolutely, we've discussed this already and it would be great value to add duckduckgo lists. But unfortunately at the moment we don't have resources to implement a parser to fetch the lists and import them into the repository. Support for commercial lists is implemented already - so this is the for sure quicker and cheaper.
And we can not yet judge about the quality of the duckduckg lists. But for sure we'd love to integrate them in future.
No, nothing to do on your side. We've verified that the lists are working in general and it seems that the "gray out" you mentioned in a different thread is just a display bug.
We'll come back to you asap - but currently we are focused to get the Raspi 4 image ready... (And btw. it's not speeding up the process if you post the same issue to several threads. We read them all... no worries 😉 )
Hi, I am very sorry. It was not my intention to place my problem in several forums. I really was wondering if I had to implement the blacklist manually. That something is not working as expected in my device is a complete other topic for me.
So again sorry! I didn't want to spam anyone.
Jox
@joxwayne No worries. Hope clearing cache was the solution and you are happy now. That's all that matters 😉