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Users of PiHole/AdGuard/Blocky, what blocklists are you using? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice try, Youtube dev. Better luck next time.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DNS 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 blocking

[–] Snowplow8861@lemmus.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I 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'.

[–] ecliptik@lemmy.ecliptik.com 5 points 2 years ago

I've had good luck with iSponsorBlockTV [1] for skipping/muting ads on our LG TV Youtube app and has Samsung Tizen on their supported list.

For my iPhone I do a combination of self-hosted Piped [2] exposed through Tailscale [3] with Yattee [4]. Both Piped and Yattee work with Sponsorblock and can be customized to see 0 ads.

Tailscale is useful since your phone/ipad/piped are on the same Tailnet regardless of location and you can stream from anywhere there's an Internet connection.

You can also swap out components; eg Invidious instead of Piped or your own Wireguard setup instead of Tailscale.

  1. https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
  2. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
  3. https://tailscale.com/
  4. https://github.com/yattee/yattee
[–] eramseth@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Oisd.nl

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the GOAT 🐐

[–] eramseth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Absolutely agree

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

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

[–] eramseth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Big.

[–] lal309@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ketcham1009@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

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

[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use whatever this guy recommends to use.

[–] jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Me too! Works super well. I fucking love NextDNS.

[–] easeKItMAn@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

Some of my other lists

Adstracking

Blocklistproject

Easylist Germany

Notrack

And many more

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

Loving that you straight up block Halo servers.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] iodine0320@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've been quite happy after recently switching to Hagezi https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

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