"Instead of that, by making this change, Pi-Hole encourages people to continue using the old approach, and increase the blocklists' size even more," the AdGuard CEO added. It is a multipurpose tool that blocks ads, controls access to dangerous sites, speeds up page loading, and protects children from inappropriate content. "In an ideal world where everyone uses the same syntax, the filter lists would be compatible, and it would be easier for people to contribute to both hosts blocklists and traditional filter lists. AdGuard for Windows is more than an ad blocker. I actually think that AdBlock-style syntax is superior to hosts blocklists, and instead, they should have urged blocklists maintainers to start using it so that there were more proper blocklists," Meshkov added. "And I think this is why they decided to drop support, they are just tired of people trying to use EasyList or EasyPrivacy in Pi-Hole and then dealing with lots of false positives. They were created specifically for the traditional ad blockers," Meshkov told ZDNet. "Most of the AdBlock-style filter lists are not supposed to be used in the DNS-level ad-blocking software. "This is mostly because there's no pattern-matching, and instead of having one rule like this ||^, there are 24917 subdomains." Dropping AdBlock-style blocklists is a "mistake"
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