FilterLists VS metadata

Compare FilterLists vs metadata and see what are their differences.

metadata

This repository contains the data behind our Security, Privacy and Parental Control features. (by nextdns)
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FilterLists metadata
129 84
1,239 627
- 0.3%
9.4 0.0
1 day ago over 1 year ago
C#
MIT License -
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

FilterLists

Posts with mentions or reviews of FilterLists. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-16.

metadata

Posts with mentions or reviews of metadata. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-26.
  • Threat Intelligence Feeds
    1 project | /r/nextdns | 24 Mar 2023
  • Internet Archive (archive.org) blocked
    1 project | /r/nextdns | 14 Mar 2023
    Which list is blocking archive.org? If "NextDNS Ads & Trackers Blocklist", probably some kind of mistake, write about it - https://github.com/nextdns/metadata/issues
  • NextDNS - Are their lists public to use in Pihole?
    2 projects | /r/pihole | 26 Feb 2023
    You can find the NextDNS lists here: https://github.com/nextdns/metadata
  • Is NextDNS alive?
    4 projects | /r/nextdns | 3 Feb 2023
    You can always look at github. This is just the activity for their metadata repo: https://github.com/nextdns/metadata/commits/masterFeel free to check their other repos.
  • Threat intelligence feed, why blocked?
    1 project | /r/nextdns | 16 Jan 2023
  • Next DNS doesn't respond to any help issues.
    2 projects | /r/nextdns | 10 Jan 2023
    NextDNS gives you a whole bunch of 3rd party filters, maintained by random dudes in Github repos as a hobby. We support some of them too in the "3rd party filters" tab, however we don't encourage anyone to actually use them, as we have our own Native filters, that we've built up over the course of 5 years based on feedback for millions of Windscribe (our sister company) users. Our native filters are highly effective, and prone to much fewer false positives. We recommend you try them, you will be pleasantly surprised with how they perform. I guarantee you that you will spend 90% less time making whitelist rules for false blocks... or your money back :) "Native tracking protection" filters are all part of the IoT Filter. NextDNS has the individual toggles, which enforce this small set of rules. Out IoT filter enforces all of them, as well as 10x more things.
  • Problems with parental controls
    1 project | /r/nextdns | 3 Jan 2023
    Here is the list: https://github.com/nextdns/metadata/blob/master/parentalcontrol/categories/video-streaming.json
  • Ad blocking
    1 project | /r/firewalla | 24 Dec 2022
    Here's those native blocking lists from NextDNS: https://github.com/nextdns/metadata/tree/master/privacy/native
  • what happened to Energized ultimate?
    2 projects | /r/nextdns | 14 Dec 2022
    From https://github.com/nextdns/metadata/blob/master/privacy/blocklists/energized-ultimate.json the link used is https://block.energized.pro/ultimate/formats/domains.txt which currently contains nothing but comments.
  • SafeSearch Alternative Browsers
    1 project | /r/pfBlockerNG | 12 Dec 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FilterLists and metadata you can also consider the following projects:

pihole-regex - Custom regex filter list for use with Pi-hole.

blacklist - Blacklist and Adware Blocking for the Ubiquiti EdgeMax Router

WindowsSpyBlocker - Block spying and tracking on Windows

NXEnhanced - Adds "quality-of-life" features to NextDNS website for a more practical usability

The Blocklist Project - These lists were created because the founder of the project wanted something with a little more control over what is being blocked. Many lists out there are all or nothing. We set out to create lists with more control over what is being blocked and believe that we have accomplished that.

FTL - The Pi-hole FTL engine

uBlock-for-firefox-legacy - uBlock Origin for Firefox legacy-based browsers.

pihole-antitelemetry - A research-based starter pihole list to improve your privacy

ClearURLs-Addon - ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.

blahdns - A small hobby ads block dns project with doh, dot, dnscrypt support.

uMatrix-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uMatrix

cname-trackers - This repository contains a list of popular CNAME trackers