Pi-hole VS pihole-regex

Could dedicate 2 of them to home server stuff or smart home automations. Pihole, docker, plex, nextcloud etc.

You might want to checl.this out https://pi-hole.net/. You can even install it on a VM and it blocks almost all ads in all your devices, including your TV. Wink wink

I recently installed https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole and I'm watching the windows and Mac OS devices call home many times per minute, along with both android and ios also chatting 24 hours per day to ad servers, even when the device is just laying there and not being used.

and you are doing the right thing. In my opinion that's why reddit exists. If you are interested take this challenge and set up pi-hole on your network and give your entire household ads free :) https://pi-hole.net/

Alright guys, time for you to know about Pihole, its adblock but instead of running in your browser, it runs ON YOUR ROUTER.

If you have Pi-hole would it skip the 30 seconds or just give you 30 seconds of black screen?

I use a PiHole then run the TV like normal, minus the ads.

Pi hole

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.

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.

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

https://github.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/blob/master/miscellaneous/amp.list he suggests a regex (which I've been using):

I also suggest these regex blocks

Decent basic regex list