I agree, for folks that don’t align with common use cases something like Trash is great. But there are always common configs, in all things that the masses would benefit from. For example, with blocklists you often have users who want to block all ads, porn, only ads from large companies but not small businesses, politics, etc. Different strokes for different folks.

Same is true with Sonarr & Radarr, where you have users who prefer different things, like foreign content, subtitled content, audio quality, specific video formats, etc. Chances are there is a configuration that would strike a balance for the masses and make most users happy. Just like most users are happy with a general ad blocklist without having to think much about what it is or isn’t blocking.

I’ll probably check out Cleanuparr for my own needs, that looks like a step in the right direction.

I appreciate the advice, but I’m not solely referring to the customization of filtering, of course it has the ability to do that, almost every comment in this thread is about that. The feature I am raising is about syncing community maintained txt blobs, Trash tells us exactly how to sync the guide with Sonarr/Radarr, but not without additional software or manual effort.

Trash may offer excellent filters, but they are often incomplete, and do not promote community involvement. A URL pointed at a single source of truth inherently would, this is a popular approach with blocklists all over the web. If a user wants to modify the list, and has to post to a single moderated source, everyone benefits. But currently as a user you either setup syncing orchestration or you manually copy Trash. Neither of which lends itself toward keeping the community up to date.

If you are aware of a way to have Sonarr/Radarr pull directly from a single source of truth and update itself, that would be great though.

I am familiar, thanks though

This kind of functionality belongs in Sonarr/Radarr imo, and not separate service(s)

Honestly we should just start a list we maintain, and then ask Sonarr/Radarr to offer a feature to pull from a URL of our choosing periodically. That way we can curate the blocklists as a collective rather than this manual bullshit.

I took one of the broken ones from my office, repaired it, and now it allows my dnd campaign to see the DM and all the other players reactions when playing remotely.

While I don’t know this is the case, I can say from experience that in large enterprise organizations compliance departments will and do actively prevent the release of features and even commits if they don’t comply.

While that’s not an excuse for challenging them, I could definitely see a stressed out mid level just trying to make there manager happy and move on with life.

Not OP, but they said “but it could be”, not that it is required.