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(I'm wasn't implying the EnergizedProtection is sketchy...)

The essential problem is, without active curation, source lists can't quickly react to emerging threats.

Without active curation, source lists become add-only buckets where domains land, and are rarely removed, long after they are abandoned.

The soft option is to simply cumulate domains. We've seen candidate block lists grow from 350,000 domains to 750,000 domains. These are just endless one-way buckets. Use that as your Android phone's hosts file, or you Windows PC hosts file, and you're going to have a bad time.

At the edges, there are myriad grey areas. We can all agree that YouTube serving ads is painful. But what about Youtube retaining your viewing history, which some people find very useful and handy. Over the years we've often had discussions such as this. This is what it means to actively curate.