Feature Request: Please clean up dead and outdated privacy/adblock lists (Detailed List)

Hello NextDNS Team,

 

First of all, thank you for a great service. However, many users have noticed that the Privacy and Security tabs in the dashboard are cluttered with completely outdated, abandoned, or even empty blocklists.

 

Having lists that haven't been updated in years defeats the purpose of modern privacy protection and can even cause issues. I took the time to go through the dashboard and manually compile a list of outdated or broken blocklists that should be removed or replaced:

 

💀 Completely Dead / Empty Lists

 

• Fanboy's Enhanced Tracking List (Empty, 3 years)

 

• 1Hosts Mini (Empty, 1 year)

 

• 1Hosts Pro (Empty, 1 year)

 

• Energized Spark / Blu / Blue Go / Ultimate / Extreme Extension / Regional Extension / Basic (All empty, ~4 months since abandonment)

 

⚠️ Outdated / Abandoned Lists (2 to 6+ Years without Updates)

 

• Disconnect Ads / Malvertising / Tracking (6 years old)

 

• NSA Blocklist (6 years old)

 

• MVPS Hosts (5 years old)

 

• Antipopads (5 years old)

 

• Unchecky ads (5 years old)

 

• Shalla's Blacklists (adv / tracker) (5 years old)

 

• WindowsSpyBlocker (Spy) (4 years old)

 

• CAMELEON (3 years old)

 

• yhosts (3 years old)

 

• AdAway (3 years old)

 

• notracking (3 years old)

 

• Lightswitch05 - Ads & Tracking (3 years old)

 

• ad-wars (3 years old)

 

• AdAway Blocking Hosts File for Japan (2 years old)

 

• add.2o7Net (2 years old)

 

• bkrucarci turk adlist (2 years old)

 

• Personal Blocklist by WaLLy3K (2 years old)

 

• Latvian List (2 years old)

 

• No Facebook (2 years old)

 

• Goodbye Ads (2 years old)

 

• Barbblock (1 year old)

 

Keeping these lists active gives users a false sense of security.

 

Suggestions:

 

1. Please remove the dead/empty lists.

 

2. Please consider adding the HaGeZi Threat Intelligence (TIF) lists (along with other native HaGeZi lists), which the community has been actively requesting for a long time as a modern, high-quality replacement.

 

Thank you for looking into this and keeping NextDNS up to date!