I've stepped down from maintenance. If anyone wants to contribute...

[jawz101]

... I had gone to @PerfectSlayer (same on XDA forums) a few years ago and asked if I could tackle the list at the time.

Work has picked up where I want to reprioritize but it's definitely been a fun endeavor.

My intentions were to keep it small but effective and when I use it, it blocks as much or more than any other list I've compared it to for the environment I use it on.

My goal was to keep it strictly limited to in-app ads, and location-type tracking domains taken from watching DNS logs on my Android devices, NextDNS logs, pi-hole logs, pfSense/pfBlocker-NG logs, etc when playing crappy games or running bloated apps.

I use Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin installed so anything that is blocked by the typical web-based blocklists is covered there so I didn't want web-based companies to necessarily be on the Adaway list.

I don't block *.googleapis.com, microsoft/firefox telemetry, or make blanket choices to BlOcK FaCeBoOk or Windows telemetry. A lot of these things are controlled by toggles within an app so blocking it in a blocklist is superfluous and may improve performance to actually turn the reporting off within its application in the 1st place. No email phishing domains, virus domains, not even the top-level domains of the actual ad company because I still want to go to their webpage and see who they are. Just the actual DNS lookups used when their code runs within an app.

I also try to block ad traffic on smart TV's, e-Readers, or similar things.

That's pretty much it. I'd rather not see the list become one of these lists of other people's lists. There are hundreds of those. None out there at the time concentrated on the monetization of mobile devices.

[PerfectSlayer]

Thanks for your time and your hard work 🙏

[spirillen]

Thanks for your time, work and contribution over the time also you have been good to share knowledge of what have found.

Hoping you follower would be just as keen for sharing information across projects as you have been.

Thanks @jawz101

[sr093906]

Sad news. AdAway remains one of the best hosts overall available in my view.

[Robboman93]

Thanks for your work on the project, it has always been a very efficient blocking list 👍

[tillcash]

Thanks for your work.