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So I reinstalled everything and the latest pihole just came with one adlist, about 250K entries.

I mostly just want to make sure we're blocking adware and trackers but malware, crypto nonsense, etc... would be good too.

Thanks for suggestions.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

1,089,320 domains total.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts

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://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt

https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/UncheckyAds/hosts

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigdargon/hostsVN/master/hosts

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolishFiltersTeam/KADhosts/master/KADhosts_without_controversies.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Spam/hosts

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Ads.txt

https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-blocklist.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.2o7Net/hosts

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/spy.txt

https://hostfiles.frogeye.fr/firstparty-trackers-hosts.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Alternate%20versions%20Anti-Malware%20List/AntiMalwareHosts.txt

https://osint.digitalside.it/Threat-Intel/lists/latestdomains.txt

https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Crypto.txt

https://bitbucket.org/ethanr/dns-blacklists/raw/8575c9f96e5b4a1308f2f12394abd86d0927a4a0/bad_lists/Mandiant_APT1_Report_Appendix_D.txt

https://phishing.army/download/phishing_army_blocklist_extended.txt

https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-malware.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Spam404/lists/master/main-blacklist.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Risk/hosts

https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/downloads/hostfile/

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolishFiltersTeam/KADhosts/master/KADhosts.txt

https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Malware.txt

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Phishing.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AssoEchap/stalkerware-indicators/master/generated/hosts

https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/lists/ads-and-tracking-extended.txt

The above I've run unchanged for at least 3 years.

Today I also added: (mostly because It's been a while since I made any changes) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/domains/pro.txt

From: https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists

Bringing me up to 1,699,816 domains.

As that list is new to me I can't say how good or bad it is yet, but it did block revanced.net and revanced.io annoyingly. (manually whitelisted now) We'll see how it does and adapt on the fly :)

Edit: replaced screenshots with raw links.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Amazing. Thank you!

[–] smort@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I’ve gone down this road. Be careful. If it’s critical to your household that the internet works, your best bet is the standard list included.

With a dozen or more additional lists, I ended up spending a lot of time with the pihole totally disabled when something was getting blocked that shouldn’t be, and then more time tinkering trying to figure out what to whitelist.

[–] plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks buy i'm not really clear what this means:

If you're not using remote lists like the ones mentioned above then this script will be useless to you - Pi-hole already updates the lists weekly automatically.

Aren't all lists remote lists?

[–] plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I read it as the tool helps maintain a dynamic list of adlists, it will help add and remove lists based on the configuration whereas if you just add a bunch of adlists yourself (like in the gui), pihole will monitor them for domain updates weekly but it's always the same set of adlists.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ohhhhhhhhh, I see. Thanks!

I'm definitely going to keep it simple, add a few lists manually now and then leave it alone.

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

That's how I started as well. You can always change it up later and whitelist/blacklist domains manually as you go.

[–] numbermess@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

We have been using just the one that it comes with for many years and it's been entirely sufficient.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 2 years ago