my-pihole-blocklists VS pi-hole-unbound-wireguard

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)

In addition follow this until you get to the WireGuard install and install PiVPN instead: https://github.com/notasausage/pi-hole-unbound-wireguard.

I installed PiHole with Unbound, following this guide: https://github.com/notasausage/pi-hole-unbound-wireguard and after those, I also installed wireguard. Everything was working so far, but when I entered via ssh to the raspberry pi, to enable NFS shares there, it started having problems resolving the domains:

You navigate to the dns page of pi hole and input the static IP of your Pihole. Again doesn’t matter if you are wired or wireless. I love this guide: https://github.com/notasausage/pi-hole-unbound-wireguard. I use everything up to the WireGuard instructions and just use piVPN because I think it’s a better solution and I still use WireGuard!

I used guide: https://github.com/notasausage/pi-hole-unbound-wireguard

Using WireGuard or some other solution? Man - with a few pi’s, it was super simple. I used this guide as a guide: https://github.com/notasausage/pi-hole-unbound-wireguard For the server side set up. But when it came to the WireGuard piece I installed piVPN for WireGuard. Worked first time.

I also prefer in combo with WireGuard. There are some good tutorials out there. See this start to finish guide for setting up locally Pihole +Unbound +WireGuard or, even easier, this docker-compose tutorial called WireHole. If you want to go the cloud-based route there are a bunch of options. See this Cloudblock tutorial. It looks like it is still being maintained.

notasausage/pi-hole-unbound-wireguard: Turning your Raspberry Pi into an ad-blocking VPN with built-in DNS resolution using Pi-Hole, Unbound & WireGuard. (github.com)