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Eddie 2.21.6 Desktop Edition released Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new stable release of Eddie is now available for Linux (various ARM based architectures included, making it compatible with several Raspberry Pi systems), Mac, Windows. Special thanks to all the beta testers, whose invaluable contributions and suggestions in the last 9 months have helped developers fix several bugs and improve the overall stability of the software. Eddie is a free and open source (GPLv3) OpenVPN GUI and CLI by AirVPN with many additional features such as: traffic leaks prevention via packet filtering rules DNS handling optional connections over Tor or a generic proxy customizable events traffic splitting on a destination IP address or host name basis complete and swift integration with AirVPN infrastructure with OpenVPN and WireGuard white and black lists of VPN servers ability to support IPv4, IPv6 and IPv6 over IPv4 What's new in Eddie 2.21.6 WireGuard support including thorough and swift integration with AirVPN enhanced wintun support in Windows, resolving TAP driver adapter issues and boosting performance, and now set by default as a replacement of TAP driver (which remains optionally available) updated Hummingbird 1.2.0 support in Linux and macOS for increased performance (up to 120% boost in macOS i7 and M1 systems when compared against OpenVPN 2) new ping engine updated Portable and AppImage bundles for improved Linux distributions compatibility constant monitoring of resolv.conf in Linux to mitigate and resolve DNS interference refined network interface management and driver detection in Windows bootstrap servers IPv6 address support unquoted service fix aimed at security hardening in Windows updates of all underlying linked libraries as well as dynamic link against some libraries providing enhanced robustness resolution of memory leaks in Windows starting to occur after numerous usage hours several bug fixes Operating and architectural notes Eddie GUI and CLI run with normal user privileges, while a "backend" binary, which communicates to the user interface with authentication, gains root/administrator privileges, with important security safeguards in place: strict parsing is enforced before passing a profile to OpenVPN in order to block insecure OpenVPN directives external system binaries which need superuser privileges (examples: openvpn, iptables, hummingbird) will not be launched if they do not belong to a superuser Eddie events are not run with superuser privileges: instead of trusting blindly user's responsibility and care when dealing with events, the user is required to explicitly operate to run something with high privileges, if strictly necessary Backend binary is written in C++ on all systems (Windows included), making the whole application faster. Settings, certificates and keys of your account stored on your mass storage can optionally be encrypted on all systems either with a Master Password or in a system key-chain if available. Download Eddie 2.21.6 Eddie 2.21.6 can be downloaded here: https://airvpn.org/linux - Linux version (several architectures and various distribution specific packages for easier installation) https://airvpn.org/macos - Mac version https://airvpn.org/windows - Windows version Eddie is free and open source software released under GPLv3. Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/AirVPN/Eddie Complete changelog can be found here. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

There might be, but you probably want OISD instead. Energized had massive problems in the past with website reachability and they also blocked waaay too much. People regularly complained about it. Their Unified list contained close to 1.5 million entries with a ton of false positives and a difficult process of reporting them. I see their website was overhauled and the biggest list now contains "only" 600k entries. But if this list still breaks things for you, then it's probably not the list for you. Really, have a look at OISD. Domain would be simply google.com, as the little info text tells you, then www., drive., play., etc. will be blocked, too. . It's not that simple. DoubleClick (advertising), YouTube and Android belong to Google, too. Oh, and there are the regional Google pages, too (google.de for example). These would not be blocked. But in contrast to Domain: google.com, a Wildcard: google will block all subdomains, all regional versions plus things like googleusercontent.com. I think it's best to use a dedicated list for that. Sadly, I don't remember ever seeing such a list. There's an Adblock-compatible one for Facebook, though, so Google should exist as well somewhere. I welcome all hints in this direction myself. If you cannot select it in the Mode list, probably not. Well, normal DNS translates a domain to an IP address. For adblock purposes, domains are usually translated to an unspecified (0.0.0.0, ::) or localhost (127.0.0.1, ::1) address. A custom answer lets you specify what the DNS server should return instead if, in your case Google, is requested. Let's call it telemetry, not spying. But yes, it is kinda annoying. That's why most people here, including me, will always recommend Linux or BSD instead. I see you grasped the advantages of running Linux yourself already