cname-cloaking-blocklist
A list of domains used by tracking companies as CNAME destination when disguising third-party trackers as first-party trackers. (by nextdns)
smashblock
📡 🛡️A self-updating extensive blocklist filter for AdGaurd. Be sure to 🌟 this repository for updates! (by smashah)
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cname-cloaking-blocklist
Posts with mentions or reviews of cname-cloaking-blocklist.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-28.
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Disguised trackers are blocked regardless of toggle (which is a good thing)
So nextdns’s third party disguised trackers is actually really tiny of a list, like 30 domains. (Im trying to add more so it has the same amount of cname’s blocked as adguard). Anyways, the reason why the list is so tiny is because it uses wildcard logic so all subdomains get blocked. It already uses some of the cname companies that adguards cname-tracker list uses but not all. Hopefully my pull request can get merge eventually because then the setting will be a little bit more effective
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New Adguard CNAME Tracker List that works on Pi-hole!
We've been discussing this new list source on another forum. As stated by some other users, a lot of the entries are already included in other lists, even that isn't very efficient. A long time ago, NextDNS published something similar on GitHub, after looking into that, I created and published a script that turned these entries into regex blacklist entries, which provide adequate protection against CNAME cloaking. Now the Adguard Team has published their version, however, using a similar technique to create regex blacklist entries also provides adequate protection, without adding thousands of new (some duplicate) entries to gravity. The file of interest in the entire repository is the json file, it contains the domains that would require regexes to efficiently block everything in the lists. When adding the regex entries, using a script, it turned out most of them are already covered by the NextDNS entries, only 9 additional regexes are added. For those who are interested in using the regex blacklist method, as opposed to adding big lists, you can find the entire explanation (and how to) in my pihole manual, section 15 (Deep CNAME inspection). the domain users.telenet.be may require whitelisting!
smashblock
Posts with mentions or reviews of smashblock.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-27.
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how to i block these popups
However, you should not generally being seeing popups like these. You might want to try the SMASHBLOCK Blocklist as well as some of the built in annoyance filters. StevenBlack/hosts is another great one. Both of those are amalgamations of multiple blocklists, so they will filter way more stuff than you're used to. You might find yourself temporarily or permanently allowing some hosts to go through, more than you're used to.
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Just having the Windscribe extension installed in your browser prevents you from accessing Startpage.com
uBlock Origin - with most relevant adblocker filters installed, including custom ones like NoCoin, SMASHBLOCK, and others.
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The Quantum Ad-List contains over 1300000 domains used by ads, trackers, malware
Awesome work!
For anyone interested in using The Quantum ad-list in their adguard setups, I've added this to my self-updating ad gaurd block list generator (smashblock - which is also based on hblock).
https://github.com/smashah/smashblock
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cname-cloaking-blocklist and smashblock you can also consider the following projects:
pihole-regex - Custom regex filter list for use with Pi-hole.
hosts - Hostfile blocklist for ads and tracking, updated regularly