no-google VS pihole-regex

Yes

There's https://github.com/nickspaargaren/no-google for Google, scroll down and you'll find other lists for the rest of the corps you mentioned.

If so, you can use this blocklist: https://github.com/nickspaargaren/no-google

I first tried to gather Google domains to use in my pi-hole about a year ago, but ran into a similar problem you currently have. The list nickspaargaren is probably the best public list, but it does not have almost 8,000 domains; it has about 8,000 subdomains. If you run a script to fetch only apex domains, it only has about 800 Google domains. There is also a regex list if your DNS system supports it, since it will likely catch future subdomains as Google creates them.

Once Adguard is installed you can use it together with nextdns. It would be the easiest way. Or you could install Adguard and use This list. You must add it as a custom list.

There are wrappers for updating regex lists that can be modified with other URLs. This was floating around for a while: https://github.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/blob/master/install.py and this is another method: https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/documentation/general/refreshing-piholes-regex-block-list-from-external-sources.html With enough regex tweaking I bet you could shave at least tens of thousands of lines off your list, and it could be divided into regex entries for domains where it makes sense, with the rest being non-regex domain entries. Simple regex that is functionally equivalent to AdBlock style wildcard blocks won't notably bog down the system either. It might take a few hours to get a workflow going to streamline producing such a list, but it can be done.

I also have a bunch of RegEx blacklisted from this pihole-regex/regex.list at master · mmotti/pihole-regex · GitHub and these:

Here's a list of domains I've used for years. All of which have been collected from different websites and sources such as https://firebog.net/ and https://github.com/mmotti/pihole-regex.

I also suggest these regex blocks

Your mileage may vary, but a combination of the default pi-hole list, the firebog.net lists (green, checkmark lists only), and the https://github.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/blob/master/regex.list do a pretty complete job for me.

While not perfect, and does not directly address the YouTube ads, I can suggest setting up mmotti's Regex Filters for Pi-hole.

I did also find these as well: https://github.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/blob/master/regex.list

Maybe this help: https://github.com/mmotti/pihole-regex