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Blocklist-Update.sh

Blocklist-Update.sh is a script that I wrote to manage blocklists from bluetack etc to be used in conjunction with Transmission torrent downloader in Linux/MacOS. The script can be taylored to work with Qbittorrent as well, but the placement of the blocklists means you'd have to redirect the blocklist to go somewhere locally manageable as Transmission uses its own blocklist directory in .config. I believe there are about 10 lists there now. It works well for my needs. It can be ran weekly using crontab in standard user profile.  To download:  blocklist-update.sh To download the others:  Github

A LITTLE BACKSTORY ON CCLEANER & LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVES

 Ccleaner, originally Crap Cleaner, was founded in 2003 and was quickly one of the world’s most popular cleaning utilities for Windows. Ccleaner made a name for itself, it was well received and was downloaded over two-billion times as of time of writing, according to Piriform. Piriform are the original development team behind such programs like Ccleaner, Defraggler, Speccy, and a few other applications, including a cloud cleaning application for remote access to clients or servers in regards to maintenance. Ccleaner started out rather small offering few other tools than a disk cleaner, but quickly built itself up to include a host of other useful tools. Useful tools that were later included into Ccleaner include: Disk cleanup, registry cleaner, startup manager, addons manager, applications uninstaller, etc. Ccleaner became so popular that it even raised the eyebrows of Avast. Avast is a well known antivirus company in the Czech Republic and was founded circa 1988. As of recently