Pi-hole
A black hole for Internet advertisements (by pi-hole)
the-quantum-ad-list
By The_Quantum_Alpha
| Pi-hole | the-quantum-ad-list | |
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| 2,377 | 21 | |
| 52,514 | - | |
| 0.9% | - | |
| 9.5 | - | |
| 5 days ago | - | |
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Pi-hole
Posts with mentions or reviews of Pi-hole.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-21.
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Remove Internet Junk from Ground Up: A DNS-Based Approach
P.S. If you want even more control over your DNS resolvers, you can host one of your own using Pi-hole.
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Why do we need DNSSEC?
Your mom should be running this. It would improve her life. Set it up for her.
https://pi-hole.net
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Zero Trust, One Router: Hardening Your Home Lab Like a Cyber Fortress.
Pi-hole: Block ads and trackers at DNS level
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Self-hosting like a final boss: what I actually run on my home lab (and why)
Pi-hole: DNS-level ad-blocking
- Ask HN: What project do you donate to?
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Tools for thoughts1 Date:03/2025 Moderator:Daniel.J.Q.Goh
This part can be link to Pi-Hole Before proceed to configuring VPN, recommended to get "Free DNS" for yourself at MyDNS to manage your own network.
- Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)
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Using Raspberry Pi Computers For OSINT And Self-Quantification
One of my favorite uses of a Raspberry Pi computer is Pi-hole. Which is promoted as a network-wide advertisement blocker. By installing Pi-hole on a RPi and attaching said device to your home LAN, a whole new world of OSINT and self-quantification is opened up.
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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
Time to set up Pi-Hole on my Rapsberry Pi 4
https://pi-hole.net/
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Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic
Tools like https://pi-hole.net does this for the whole house. It comes with a default set of blocked domains and you can easily add to it. It acts as your local DNS for the network.
the-quantum-ad-list
Posts with mentions or reviews of the-quantum-ad-list.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-29.
- Listas de bloqueio de DNS focadas no mercado brasileiro?
- The Quantum Hosts Ad-List
- what are the domains that you guys use to block ads? ill include the domains that I have blocked on here, and let me know if there are some domains that I should include in my list, Thanks!
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Is OpenBox deprecated?
#!/bin/sh curl https://gitlab.com/The_Quantum_Alpha/the-quantum-ad-list/-/raw/master/For%20hosts%20file/The_Quantum_Ad-List.txt > hosts nano ~/hosts sudo rm /etc/hosts sudo cp ~/hosts /etc/ rm ~/hosts
- Are the EasyList from Adblocker Plus OK to be used with Pi-Hole?
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dbl.oisd.nl why is it blocking aidc.apple.com
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smashah/smashblock/master/blocklist.txt https://ipa-apps.me/FixRevoke/New_Install_Fix.txt https://oooo.b-cdn.net/blahdns/blahdns_rpz.txt https://oooo.b-cdn.net/blahdns/adsblock.txt https://oooo.b-cdn.net/blahdns/rpz.txt https://canihazprivacy.com/ https://gist.githubusercontent.com/random-robbie-research/75dd826a538406235c68b02de9f514c5/raw/f4e0164d2f0d1020d1076a1b41891beb345ac9e7/apple.com-fixed.txt https://pastebin.com/raw/6mjs7XLu https://raw.githubusercontent.com/c-edw/ios-telemetry/master/blacklist https://gitlab.com/The_Quantum_Alpha/the-quantum-ad-list/-/raw/master/For%20hosts%20file/The_Quantum_Ad-List.txt https://github.com/j-moriarti/pDNSf-Hosts-collection/releases/download/v1.0.0/pDNSf-hosts-part0.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ftpmorph/ftpihole/master/blocklists/apple-macos-big-sur.txt
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Some questions from a new user
I no longer recommend the OISD lists, see here as to why and also here for a good write up as to how the author ignores legitimate concerns nor do I recommend the “Quantum Blocklist that’s been going around - here’s why
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TIL studies done by online stockbrokers where they analyse the results achieved by their clients found that the ones that did the best were those that had died (and the category that did second best had forgotten their log in details).
I don't know of a better list. https://gitlab.com/The_Quantum_Alpha/the-quantum-ad-list
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Block lists
I no longer recommend the OISD lists, see here as to why and also here for a good write up as to how the author ignores legitimate concerns nor do I recommend the “Quantum Blocklist that’s been going around - here’s why
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Pi-hole and the-quantum-ad-list you can also consider the following projects:
Technitium DNS Server - Technitium DNS Server
pihole-regex - Custom regex filter list for use with Pi-hole.
graylog - Free and open log management
pihole-updatelists - Update Pi-hole's lists from remote sources easily
dnscrypt-proxy - dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)