Adguardhome: Gzipped Blocklists?

[hl2guide]

Feature Description

Please consider adding support for gzipped blocklists or similar.

Quartering the download size of every blocklist update would be nice 👍

e.g:

[josephbu]

Most modern web servers will compress/gzip on the fly, so often it's not that much difference as to the actual data transfer.

Additionally the application then also needs to have support to extract/decompress/manage the files.

[DandelionSprout]

It would be a huge accomplishment if AdGuard Home became able to interpret compressed filterlists (Not just .gz and .tar.gz, but also .zip and .7z), because I'm not aware of any adblocker tools in existence that are able to do that.

I support this notion all the way, for the record, also in the hopes it'll inspire other major tools to do the same (e.g. AdGuard for Windows, uBlock Origin, etc.).

[ameshkov]

because I'm not aware of any adblocker tools in existence that are able to do that

Well, we don't do that for a reason.

As @josephbu explained, this is already a part of all modern web servers. For instance, filter lists that are downloaded from Github are already compressed (see the Content-Encoding header in the server response).

[hl2guide]

Please reconsider this issue as it has many basic advantages. Even support for a generic .zip format would be great.

A real world example that I'm running into is that I have a over 60MB blocklist (that cannot be uploaded to GitHub because of their size limit). As a zip it is around just 17MB.

Link: https://github.com/hl2guide/Filterlist-for-AdGuard/blob/master/2.5%20ALPHA%201/filter_blocklist.zip?raw=true

[ameshkov]

that cannot be uploaded to GitHub because of their size limit

Uploaded via their web interface? What about committing it to a repo?