AIO-Firebog-Blocklists VS adfilt

Sure, use those blocklists from https://firebog.net/

I am currently aware of firebog.net, but don't know if there are any other public forums/collections that are dedicated to this. I was hoping to contribute my personally made DNS block list for the public to use, if desired.

I run Raspian on 2 PiHoles for myself and administer for friends (each running 2 PiHoles) on Libre Le Potatos (2Gb). The effectiveness you get will be from the block lists you choose. I chose which lists to use from Firebog. I also suggest running 2 PiHoles, because if DNS goes down your not gonna internet anything! My personal experience also shows it's not always quick and easy to recognize your DNS is not working, I find it's easier to update each when I want.

Admittedly I am brand new to PiHole. I bought a raspberry pi, imaged the flash drive, ran the PiHole instal script and set some additional block lists from this list https://firebog.net/, set my DHCP server to give out PiHole as my address and haven’t thought much else about it.

I've loaded up several lists from firebog.net, and I noticed at least two with 500k+ entries. I've not noticed any issues and load on my pihole VM on TrueNAS allocated with a single core and 1GB of ram from an N6005, I'm still wondering if this could cause me issues in the future.

Have you added much to your adlists in PiHole? A great resource for adlists is https://firebog.net/

That list is a start, but it's nowhere near comprehensive enough for a device touting security as it's main asset and not even comparable to this: https://firebog.net/. That list is just one of many curated and fairly comprehensive lists of lists for PiHole blocking.. Furthermore the block lists are even the same format as the list you posted. All deeper needs to do is provide users with unlimited blocking entries and a way to import and maintain the lists.

For lists, I would recommend going through the Firebog and choosing a few green lists from each category, then seeing how everything feels for a week or two. Generally once you have a few solid lists, you’re better off finding the domains of ads that are still showing up and blocking them individually. After a certain point, adding more lists just unnecessarily increases the size of your gravity database and is more likely to cause false positives, leading to issues on certain sites. I’ve got 14 lists set up, mostly from Firebog, and that seems to be a good balance for my household’s purposes.

Keep in mind that neither of those lists are default lists and neither are maintained by the uBlock Origin team. Issues with those lists should be reported to their maintainers: - AdGuard URL Tracking Protection: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues - Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool: https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/discussions/163

Also, DDG Privacy Essentials, Privacy Badger and SmartHTTPS are redundant, you can remove them. (it's a similar story with ClearURLs if you add the Legitimate URL Shortener list to uBlock Origin)

ClearURLs for uBO (deletes tracking parameters on links and this solves the problem of Google, Amazon links being too long) Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool (same) I don't care about cookies (deletes the accept cookies screens and makes it look like you didn't answer the question, and some GDPR-compliant websites may interpret this as "So he/she doesn't want any cookies") If you want to explore more uBO filters you can check DandelionSprout's Github Repository

Also, FYI, ClearURLs for uBo is known to break some websites and even interferes with other similar lists (i.e. Legit URL, AdGuard URL Tracking Protection). If you still want to use this, then please report issues/ask questions at https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/discussions/163

Fixed in https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/commit/48d9f519661d996e1f4d09d33cfced391245c5f4. In the future, please report issues with Legit URL at https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/discussions/163 because: - this isn't an issue with uBo or it's filterlists - it was only luck that I saw this, and Imre (the maintainer) doesn't check Reddit. If you report it there, both of us get notified

It's included in some of uBO's filters, but if you want to add more, the main additional filter people are recommending adding is DandelionSprout's LegitimateURLShortener, which makes heavy use of removeparam. DandelionSprout also ported ClearURLs's rules to a uBO filter, although that one is more experimental.

It's not practical to mess with rules manually, uBO comes with many filter lists included that are not enabled by default, enable them if you want to; These lists are more than enough for most users, only add third-party lists if you need them (This is the only one I recommend).

Ok. If you have any problems, feel free to report them at https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/discussions/163 and DandelionSprout and me will try to help.

if it is gateway redirected (e.g. wait 5 sec. then click a button to destination) then use https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt on ublock origin

It's fixed in Actually Legitimate URL Shortener list: https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/commit/7e6fc4c