Autoupdate Tool (?)

[sidki3003]

AdDomains, AdHosts, AdHosts-J together currently have ~1000 entries. I'd guess less than 100 of them are essential for proper functioning of the config. Most ads are blocked by generic filters now - before the URL would come into play.

I think right now the updater would hardly have anything to do. However, if ad list maintenance should be done by a group of people in the future, that could be a different thing.

A full blown ad list update is a huge task. Last time i did that was mid-2006. took me ~2 months:
- Merge other ad lists - i use pgl's - into AdDomains at first - along with a log line.
- Run them against:
English/French/Spanish/... news.google.com
http://truthlaidbear.com/ecosystem.php
http://bionanotech.wikidot.com/system:pa...g/top12000 or Alexa's by-language lists.
- Throw away everything without a couple of hits -- Including old entries.
- Decide to which list each entry should go (often AdHosts-J nowadays).

As for little updates, i add test entries quite often and evaluate the log a few weeks later. This kind of ad list additions is mostly Plan B though... if a generic block isn't possible.