Users of PiHole/AdGuard/Blocky, what blocklists are you using?
https:// lemmy.world /post/7932634 Users of PiHole/AdGuard/Blocky, what blocklists are you using?
EDIT: Thanks so much guys! This was really helpful, and I didn't imagine so many would help out!
Hey guys,
I've used PiHole for over a year now, and I really like it. I use it with WireGuard, so I always have my DNS blocker with me.
But I've wondered if I even have some good lists? I used some standard lists from a reddit thread when I set up my PiHole, and I've never looked at it since.
So what blocklists do you use? Something you can recommend?
Also, if you use Blocky or AdGuard, do you find it better than PiHole?
Nice try, Youtube dev. Better luck next time.
37DNS blocking is the most unreliable way of blocking youtube ads you can imagine.
you could write a script to OCR your entire screen and click skip ad and it'd be more reliable than DNS blocking16I don't think that works on my Samsung TV, or my partners iPad though. :)
Although not especially effective on the YouTube front, it actually increases network security just by blocking api access to ad networks on those kinds of IoT and walled garden devices. Ironically my partner loves it not for YouTube but apparently all her Chinese drama streaming websites. So when we go travel and she's subjected to those ads she's much more frustrated than when she's at home lol.
So the little joke while not strictly true, is pretty true just if you just say 'streaming content provider'.
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Something to keep in mind:
Avoid using mirrored consolidated lists, if possible; it deprives the original list maintainer of visits (meaning they may be less inclined to keep it up to date!) https://firebog.net/
5This is the GOAT 🐐
2Absolutely agree
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Did not know about this one! Just added it to my pi hole instance. Thank you!
1Same! Which version do you use? Small or big?
1Big.
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I'm using all the 'green' lists from Firebog.
12I use whatever this guy recommends to use.
10Me too! Works super well. I fucking love NextDNS.
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It depends a bit on what you want to accomplish, the threat model, the devices in use, and other topics. I think this is a good read: https://avoidthehack.com/best-pihole-blocklists
Some specific social blocklists: https://github.com/d43m0nhLInt3r/socialblocklists
9Screw you and your threat model bullshit. If you don’t know an answer just don’t comment
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I am using the most important one for germans... Springerblocker
Some of my other lists
And many more
8I use the following lists:
spoiler
I also ensure that I have ublock origin on everything I can put it on. I'm sure the default lists are fine for pihole (I just like tinkering with things), but I recommend https://firebog.net/ for finding more lists if you so desire
7I've been quite happy after recently switching to Hagezi
6This has worked great for me
5Those are mine: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/master/spammers.txt https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vokins/yhosts/master/hosts
https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RooneyMcNibNug/pihole-stuff/master/SNAFU.txt
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Admiral.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master/adservers.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/UncheckyAds/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigdargon/hostsVN/master/hosts
https://owenthe.dev/fortnite.txt https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt
https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hostsAnd my very own: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Appoxo/Ad-List/master/hosts.txt
5Loving that you straight up block Halo servers.
4Need that for the regional search to work...Otherwise it liked to put me in US servers with a 120 ping :|
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Basically the maintained ones from: https://firebog.net/
4Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System IoT Internet of Things for device controllers PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
2 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 13 acronyms.
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