hosts VS my-pihole-blocklists

I've added the Ads & Tracking list and the AMP Hosts list from Developer Dan to the default list; any others you recommend I add? It's hard to tell if the ads coming through are a 'my blocklist isn't good enough' problem or a 'my pihole's not set up properly yet' problem.

Posthog is on developerdans "Ads & Tracking" blocklist[1], if you're wondering why this doesn't load.

[1]: https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts/blob/master/docs/list...

This is how you learn. Going forward you'll start noticing some ads and some not, based on the default adlist. I think the default adlist is good enough for starting. But you should also look into developer dan's adlist and ticked firebog adlist.

Enable most of the default ones, use DNS filtering. I use Cloudflare DNS. And for some third-party filters you can load, I recommend Steven Black hosts, OISD blocklists, Developer Dan hosts and AnudeepND Blacklist.

Did you bother looking at the sticky issue that says the lists are in maintenance mode? I’m trying un-inspire confidence https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts/issues/356

FYI https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts/issues/356

Pi-hole should work fine for content blocking, you would basically create a group for the kids, add their devices via MAC, and then assign blocklists to that group to block content you don't want kids to see. There's lists available to block pornography, dating services, SPLC designated hate groups, gambling and a whole bunch of other stuff. You can also add sites individually.

Tangentially related:

Somebody created a github containing domains he thought should be blocked: https://github.com/chadmayfield/my-pihole-blocklists

A year later I bought a domain that had expired under my country TLD. It turns out that domain for some reason was previously added to that list.

Now, as you can see, the man behind that Github repo has decided to archive that repo and therefore make it read only.

As you can tell from both pull requests and issues on that repo, people has asked him to remote legitimate domains (e.g. *.urbandictionary.com). But those calls remain unanswered. It is fruitless to contact the author.

So this random dude causes real problems for legitimate business and individuals and we should just accept it?

Obviously he doesn't act on friendly geek requests. It seems lawyering up would be the only recourse in this situation. I find it analogous to somebody standing on a soap box in a village and announcing: "Don't trust James. Don't trust Mary either. There's problems with Charles" and James, Mary, and Charles have no way of stopping his libel.

I don't have the funds for legal action, but it is obviously wrong that he can announce "these domains are bad" and offer no way of fixing mistakes. He should take down the repo, but oh that sweet sweet Github karma probably discourages him from doing so.

2) Install this blocklist

https://github.com/chadmayfield/my-pihole-blocklists but not maintained

Have you checked out https://github.com/chadmayfield/my-pihole-blocklists

I got mine from here: https://github.com/chadmayfield/my-pihole-blocklists sorry if not allowed to post links. This list seemed to match some sites I know about and others that I wouldn't want the kids to find really.

I use the Chad Mayfield list (the "all" variant)