Black lists, block lists.... What I find on the web is confusing

[shykitten55]

Ok, I am not quite getting the difference between BLACKLIST and BLOCKLIST.

Moving on from that and searching, I find this (extract from web)

Block lists are publicly posted lists of domains, in HOSTS format. In Pi-Hole, the file /etc/pihole/adlists.list is the list of public block lists to which you subscribe.

Which seems nice.

But when I am there it doesn't exist.

pi@BedPi:/etc/pihole $ ls
custom.list       GitHubVersions  list.1.raw.githubusercontent.com.domains       local.list     macvendor.db      pihole-FTL.db
dhcp.leases       gravity.db      list.1.raw.githubusercontent.com.domains.sha1  localversions  migration_backup  setupVars.conf
dns-servers.conf  install.log     localbranches                                  logrotate      pihole-FTL.conf
pi@BedPi:/etc/pihole $ 

This is a screen shot of the web page of PiHole.

So to me there is a disconnect between what is written and what happens.

Could someone help me get over this confusion?
Thanks.

[DanSchaper]

Blocklists are external lists that you add to download from an external source.

Blacklists are manually entered domains or regex strings that you blacklist individually.

[jfb]

@shykitten55

In Pi-Hole, the file /etc/pihole/adlists.list is the list of public block lists to which you subscribe.

Since version 5.0, your blocklists (now called adlists) are stored in an SQL database at /etc/pihole/gravity.db.

[DanSchaper]

[shykitten55]

Thanks to both of you.

I guess that is a bad thing with the internet.......
Where as books can be updated and when you look in them you know the information is correct.

I found links to stuff which is/was (obviously) from pre-version 5.x.

I shall do more studying. Again: Thanks both.