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The Blocklist Project
- Problem - Pi-Hole not getting many DNS requests
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Ask HN: Ban All ByteDance and Tencent Domains
Here's a good starting list of TikTok hosts, of which overlaps a few of ByteDance's domains: https://github.com/blocklistproject/Lists/blob/master/tiktok...
- Adatvédelem, tudatosság
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BlockList Project?
For the past few years I've just used the standard StevenBlack one that is enabled by default when you setup PiHole, and it covers the large majority of ads. The only ads I still see are on YouTube and Twitch, and as far as I know those can't be blocked with a DNS sinkhole since the ads are served from the same domain as the content. The lists on that site seem like they let you block a bunch of other stuff, not necessarily ads, but domains related to gambling, crypto, TikTok etc. That's a bit different.
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Blocklist Syntax
do check out: blocklist project Homepage: https://blocklist.site
- help configure fortigate without fortiguard license
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Transfer trusted sites from uBlock to Brave Adblock
get more here at the Blocklist Project, and make sure its NoIp to paste in.
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Open source Porn blocker
If you go that way these are some great lists that cover porn too
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personal-blocklist VS Lists - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 19 Jan 2023
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BlockLists VS Lists - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 19 Jan 2023
nextdns
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Ask HN: Which tools are the best for internet safety for kids?
I've tried hosted Pi-Hole and AdGuard Home. They are good as long as I'm around to fix stuffs. Then I tested something which can be global (home) and also for individual devices -- Control-D, NextDNS, and Adguard DNS. All of them works pretty well. If I really have to choose, then it would be in the order of NextDNS > Control-D > AdGuard DNS. Affiliated with none, and have decided to subscribe to all three to further test them for this year.
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Runs on your OpenWrt box: AdGuard Home is network-wide blocking ads and tracking
I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS.
Note: This isn't a shill for NextDNS; I love these kinds of projects and think they absolutely should exist, but NextDNS just happens to be one of those dead-simple SaaS tools that is an insanely good value.
I used Pi-Hole, then went to NextDNS, then to AdGuard DNS, tinkered with AdGuard Home, and currently testing Control-D. They are all actually pretty good, similar features, and it has become just a matter of personal choice.
In all fairness, when I have some time and can invest in decent hardwares, I might go back to AdGuard Home with one of the paid services as backup for travel, and when for the other family members.
Pi-Hole works really well but once-a-while, when I'm traveling, it will decide to act up and it's a whole IT support with the family over phone for minutes if not hours. I'm not smart enough to setup a secure enough tunnel and the like, and haven't read up enough on the topic. This follows similar pattern with AdGuard Home.
NextDNS, AdGuard DNS, Control-D are easy and just works, especially with the devices that the family uses. I think I bought one of those AdGuard Lifetime license, so I use that to block client-side rendered ads in conjunction with either AdGuard DNS or NextDNS or Control-D. Right now, Control-D is doing pretty good with my test-drive.
Okay but NextDNS' own homepage says it "blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps" - https://nextdns.io
- Great Forgotten Sci-Fi Movies of the 1980s
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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
pretty much to the same effect of a pihole, yet you can get up and running in minutes. You can then configure wherever you please: your browser, your laptop, your phone, or even your router.
[0]: https://nextdns.io
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS resolving issues
It's not open, but I'm happy with https://nextdns.io/
There is https://www.dns0.eu and https://nextdns.io.
I like the 300K requests per month free tier that nextdns.io has. Comes with plenty of filters.
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“1.1.1.1 is now handling more than 1.3T requests per day”
you can also have a look at nextdns [0][1]. I set it up on both my mac nad iOS. NextDns provides a panel where you can see what got blocked and some other analytics for you. Even though I use Brave on iOS and Arc with uBlock Origin still that wasn't enough and nexDNS blocked some additional ~8% trackers. It's free for first 300k requests per month.
What are some alternatives?
AdGuardHome - Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server
Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements
blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.
blahdns - A small hobby ads block dns project with doh, dot, dnscrypt support.
dnscrypt-proxy - dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
NSABlocklist-pi-hole-edition - HOSTS file to block most known NSA / GCHQ / C.I.A. / F.B.I. spying servers. List is optimized for pi-hole.
Unbound - Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.
SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
Netguard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app
GoodbyeDPI - GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)
pi-hole-blocklist - Pi Hole Blocklists for blocking Social Media and Messaging services
youtube_ad_blocklist - This is an open project to maintain a list of domain names that serve YouTube ads