Best and most reliable IPfilter?

[anon]

I forgot to mention that where I live, infringement letters thankfully aren't a problem and piracy in general is taken lightly, so I don't "need" a good IP blocklist as much as someone from a different country. Therefore I use IpFilterX so that uTorrent starts faster and blocks at least some of the bad guys.

Also, more blocked IPs don't necessarily equal a better filter, although on the other side I think that's what you mean with the first paragraph of your post.

[the_wind]

I forgot to mention that where I live, infringement letters thankfully aren't a problem and piracy in general is taken lightly, so I don't "need" a good IP blocklist as much as someone from a different country. Therefore I use IpFilterX so that uTorrent starts faster and blocks at least some of the bad guys.

Please don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong about using IpFilterX. It's just a matter of taste and of course depends on what country your IP belongs to.
Regarding the filter size, I can't really notice any difference and my CPU usage by uTorrent client rarely breaks 3-4% barrier (except when it hashes/checks torrents).

Also, more blocked IPs don't necessarily equal a better filter, although on the other side I think that's what you mean with the first paragraph of your post.

You're right, more blocked IPs (not ranges!) can actually be a bad sign for a filter. It could mean that people who maintain it were lazy to get more detailed ranges for blocking. The size of the filter isn't a factor either, since the ranges of a pretty small filter (e.g. IpFilterX) can cover much more IPs than BISS's paranoid filter.

[the_wind]

Not sure when it happened, but after downloading the latest IpFilterX file I was blown away by the size of the filter. It now has 317,584 ranges!!! Holy cow! Since the last time I've checked it, it grew by 310,000 ranges. Since their forums are in German, with the use of online translators, I've tried finding any useful information about the changes without any success.

Does anybody know what's going on with this IpFilterX?

[anon]

IpFilterX went subscription-only, meaning that if you pay for one on IBlocklist.com (which I'm not going to do), you may download the light filter we knew, but otherwise you can't get it. So the one available on eMuleFuture is a "normal" list, probably the Bluetack or Pawcio one.