diff --git a/net/adblock/Makefile b/net/adblock/Makefile
index dbed4f629..917c51425 100644
--- a/net/adblock/Makefile
+++ b/net/adblock/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=adblock
-PKG_VERSION:=2.3.2
+PKG_VERSION:=2.4.0
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-3.0+
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Dirk Brenken <dev@brenken.org>
diff --git a/net/adblock/files/README.md b/net/adblock/files/README.md
index 62732e907..172551f5c 100644
--- a/net/adblock/files/README.md
+++ b/net/adblock/files/README.md
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ A lot of people already use adblocker plugins within their desktop browsers, but
 * automatically selects uclient-fetch or wget as download utility (other tools like curl or aria2c are supported as well)
 * automatically supports a wide range of router modes, even AP modes are supported
 * full IPv4 and IPv6 support
+* supports tld compression (top level domain compression), this feature removes thousands of needless host entries from the block lists and lowers the memory footprint for the dns backends
 * each block list source will be updated and processed separately
 * block list source parsing by fast & flexible regex rulesets
 * overall duplicate removal in separate block lists
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ A lot of people already use adblocker plugins within their desktop browsers, but
     * adb\_iface => restrict the procd interface trigger to a (list of) certain wan interface(s) or disable it at all (default: not set, disabled)
     * adb\_fetch => full path to a different download utility, see example below (default: not set, use wget)
     * adb\_fetchparm => options for the download utility, see example below (default: not set, use wget options)
+    * adb\_tldcomp => enable/disable tld compression (default: '1', enabled)
 
 ## Examples
 
@@ -136,19 +138,19 @@ If you use manual configuration for unbound, then just include the following lin
 <pre><code>
 wget (default):
   option adb_fetch="/usr/bin/wget"
-  option adb_fetchparm="--no-config --quiet --tries=1 --no-cache --no-cookies --max-redirect=0 --timeout=5 --no-check-certificate -O"
+  option adb_fetchparm="--no-config --quiet --no-cache --no-cookies --max-redirect=0 --timeout=10 --no-check-certificate -O"
 
 aria2c:
   option adb_fetch '/usr/bin/aria2c'
-  option adb_fetchparm '-q --max-tries=1 --timeout=5 --allow-overwrite=true --auto-file-renaming=false --check-certificate=false -o'
+  option adb_fetchparm '-q --timeout=10 --allow-overwrite=true --auto-file-renaming=false --check-certificate=false -o'
 
 uclient-fetch:
   option adb_fetch '/bin/uclient-fetch'
-  option adb_fetchparm '-q --timeout=5 --no-check-certificate -O'
+  option adb_fetchparm '-q --timeout=10 --no-check-certificate -O'
 
 curl:
   option adb_fetch '/usr/bin/curl'
-  option adb_fetchparm '-s --retry 1 --connect-timeout 5 --insecure -o'
+  option adb_fetchparm '-s --connect-timeout 10 --insecure -o'
 </code></pre>
   
 **receive adblock statistics via ubus:**
diff --git a/net/adblock/files/adblock.init b/net/adblock/files/adblock.init
index 7c4a91c1c..cf8a57b15 100755
--- a/net/adblock/files/adblock.init
+++ b/net/adblock/files/adblock.init
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ start_service()
     if [ $(/etc/init.d/adblock enabled; printf ${?}) -eq 0 ]
     then
         procd_open_instance "adblock"
-        procd_set_param env adb_procd="true"
         procd_set_param command "${adb_script}" "${@}"
         procd_set_param stdout 1
         procd_set_param stderr 1
@@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ reload_service()
 
 stop_service()
 {
-    export adb_procd="true"
     rc_procd "${adb_script}" stop
 }
 
@@ -73,7 +71,6 @@ resume()
 
 query()
 {
-    export adb_procd="true"
     rc_procd "${adb_script}" query "${1}"
 }
 
@@ -81,8 +78,6 @@ service_triggers()
 {
     local iface="$(uci -q get adblock.global.adb_iface)"
 
-    procd_open_trigger
-    procd_add_config_trigger "config.change" "adblock" /etc/init.d/adblock start
     if [ -z "${iface}" ]
     then
         procd_add_raw_trigger "interface.*.up" 1000 /etc/init.d/adblock start
@@ -92,5 +87,5 @@ service_triggers()
             procd_add_interface_trigger "interface.*.up" "${name}" /etc/init.d/adblock start
         done
     fi
-    procd_close_trigger
+    procd_add_config_trigger "config.change" "adblock" /etc/init.d/adblock start
 }
diff --git a/net/adblock/files/adblock.sh b/net/adblock/files/adblock.sh
index 8dc464b62..62d1a1c54 100755
--- a/net/adblock/files/adblock.sh
+++ b/net/adblock/files/adblock.sh
@@ -10,10 +10,11 @@
 #
 LC_ALL=C
 PATH="/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
-adb_ver="2.3.2"
+adb_ver="2.4.0"
 adb_enabled=1
 adb_debug=0
 adb_backup=0
+adb_tldcomp=1
 adb_backupdir="/mnt"
 adb_whitelist="/etc/adblock/adblock.whitelist"
 adb_whitelist_rset="\$1 ~/^([A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.){1,}[A-Za-z]+/{print tolower(\"^\"\$1\"\\\|[.]\"\$1)}"
@@ -324,7 +325,11 @@ f_log()
         then
             logger -t "adblock-[${adb_ver}] ${class}" "Please check the online documentation 'https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/adblock/files/README.md'"
             f_rmtemp
-            f_rmdns
+            if [ "$(ls -dA "${adb_dnsdir}/${adb_dnsprefix}"* >/dev/null 2>&1)" ]
+            then
+                f_rmdns
+                f_dnsrestart
+            fi
             exit 255
         fi
     fi
@@ -389,13 +394,20 @@ f_main()
             adb_rc=${?}
         fi
 
-        # check download result and prepare domain output (incl. list backup/restore)
+        # check download result and prepare domain output (incl. tld compression, list backup & restore)
         #
         if [ ${adb_rc} -eq 0 ] && [ -s "${adb_tmpload}" ]
         then
             awk "${src_rset}" "${adb_tmpload}" > "${adb_tmpfile}"
             if [ -s "${adb_tmpfile}" ]
             then
+                if [ ${adb_tldcomp} -eq 1 ]
+                then
+                    awk -F "." '{for(f=NF;f > 1;f--) printf "%s.", $f;print $1}' "${adb_tmpfile}" | sort -u > "${adb_tmpload}"
+                    awk '{if(NR==1){tld=$NF};while(getline){if($NF !~ tld"\\."){print tld;tld=$NF}}print tld}' "${adb_tmpload}" > "${adb_tmpfile}"
+                    awk -F "." '{for(f=NF;f > 1;f--) printf "%s.", $f;print $1}' "${adb_tmpfile}" > "${adb_tmpload}"
+                    mv -f "${adb_tmpload}" "${adb_tmpfile}"
+                fi
                 f_list backup
             else
                 f_list restore
@@ -410,9 +422,9 @@ f_main()
         then
             if [ -s "${adb_tmpdir}/tmp.whitelist" ]
             then
-                grep -vf "${adb_tmpdir}/tmp.whitelist" "${adb_tmpfile}" | sort -u | eval "${adb_dnsformat}" > "${adb_dnsfile}"
+                grep -vf "${adb_tmpdir}/tmp.whitelist" "${adb_tmpfile}" | eval "${adb_dnsformat}" > "${adb_dnsfile}"
             else
-                sort -u "${adb_tmpfile}" | eval "${adb_dnsformat}" > "${adb_dnsfile}"
+                cat "${adb_tmpfile}" | eval "${adb_dnsformat}" > "${adb_dnsfile}"
             fi
             adb_rc=${?}
             if [ ${adb_rc} -ne 0 ]
@@ -472,34 +484,31 @@ f_main()
 
 # handle different adblock actions
 #
-if [ "${adb_procd}" = "true" ]
-then
-    f_envload
-    case "${1}" in
-        stop)
-            f_rmtemp
-            f_rmdns
-            f_dnsrestart
-            ;;
-        restart)
-            f_rmtemp
-            f_rmdns
-            f_envcheck
-            f_main
-            ;;
-        suspend)
-            f_switch suspend
-            ;;
-        resume)
-            f_switch resume
-            ;;
-        query)
-            f_query "${2}"
-            ;;
-        *)
-            f_envcheck
-            f_main
-            ;;
-    esac
-fi
+f_envload
+case "${1}" in
+    stop)
+        f_rmtemp
+        f_rmdns
+        f_dnsrestart
+        ;;
+    restart)
+        f_rmtemp
+        f_rmdns
+        f_envcheck
+        f_main
+        ;;
+    suspend)
+        f_switch suspend
+        ;;
+    resume)
+        f_switch resume
+        ;;
+    query)
+        f_query "${2}"
+        ;;
+    *)
+        f_envcheck
+        f_main
+        ;;
+esac
 exit 0