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Users of PiHole/AdGuard/Blocky, what blocklists are you using? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by themurphy@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] Shayeta@feddit.de 33 points 10 months ago

Nice try, Youtube dev. Better luck next time.

[–] eramseth@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Oisd.nl

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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/

[–] Andi@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the GOAT 🐐

[–] eramseth@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Absolutely agree

[–] bookworm@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same! Which version do you use? Small or big?

[–] eramseth@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Big.

[–] lal309@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Did not know about this one! Just added it to my pi hole instance. Thank you!

[–] ketcham1009@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

I'm using all the 'green' lists from Firebog.

[–] easeKItMAn@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 8 points 10 months ago

I am using the most important one for germans... Springerblocker

Some of my other lists

Adstracking

Blocklistproject

Easylist Germany

Notrack

And many more

[–] neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago

I 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

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those 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=hosts

And my very own: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Appoxo/Ad-List/master/hosts.txt

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Loving that you straight up block Halo servers.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Need that for the regional search to work...Otherwise it liked to put me in US servers with a 120 ping :|

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

This has worked great for me

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Basically the maintained ones from: https://firebog.net/

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Acronyms, 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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[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

https://github.com/jacklul/pihole-updatelists