smashblock VS cname-cloaking-blocklist

Compare smashblock vs cname-cloaking-blocklist and see what are their differences.

smashblock

📡 🛡️A self-updating extensive blocklist filter for AdGaurd. Be sure to 🌟 this repository for updates! (by smashah)

cname-cloaking-blocklist

A list of domains used by tracking companies as CNAME destination when disguising third-party trackers as first-party trackers. (by nextdns)
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smashblock cname-cloaking-blocklist
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3 months ago about 1 year ago
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smashblock

Posts with mentions or reviews of smashblock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-27.

cname-cloaking-blocklist

Posts with mentions or reviews of cname-cloaking-blocklist. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-28.
  • Disguised trackers are blocked regardless of toggle (which is a good thing)
    3 projects | /r/nextdns | 28 Jan 2023
    So nextdns’s third party disguised trackers is actually really tiny of a list, like 30 domains. (Im trying to add more so it has the same amount of cname’s blocked as adguard). Anyways, the reason why the list is so tiny is because it uses wildcard logic so all subdomains get blocked. It already uses some of the cname companies that adguards cname-tracker list uses but not all. Hopefully my pull request can get merge eventually because then the setting will be a little bit more effective
  • New Adguard CNAME Tracker List that works on Pi-hole!
    3 projects | /r/pihole | 9 Mar 2021
    We've been discussing this new list source on another forum. As stated by some other users, a lot of the entries are already included in other lists, even that isn't very efficient. A long time ago, NextDNS published something similar on GitHub, after looking into that, I created and published a script that turned these entries into regex blacklist entries, which provide adequate protection against CNAME cloaking. Now the Adguard Team has published their version, however, using a similar technique to create regex blacklist entries also provides adequate protection, without adding thousands of new (some duplicate) entries to gravity. The file of interest in the entire repository is the json file, it contains the domains that would require regexes to efficiently block everything in the lists. When adding the regex entries, using a script, it turned out most of them are already covered by the NextDNS entries, only 9 additional regexes are added. For those who are interested in using the regex blacklist method, as opposed to adding big lists, you can find the entire explanation (and how to) in my pihole manual, section 15 (Deep CNAME inspection). the domain users.telenet.be may require whitelisting!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing smashblock and cname-cloaking-blocklist you can also consider the following projects:

hosts - Hostfile blocklist for ads and tracking, updated regularly

pihole-regex - Custom regex filter list for use with Pi-hole.

compose-cloudhole - a multi-container application to run pi-hole with cloudflared DNS-over-HTTPS as the upstream resolver

cname-trackers - This repository contains a list of popular CNAME trackers

uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

Filterlist-for-AdGuard-or-PiHole - A very aggressive filter-list that consolidates over 370 lists for use in AdGuard Home, Pi-Hole or similar.

donutdns - Block ads, trackers, and malicious sites with donutdns - simple alternative to pihole. Run as a docker container, standalone executable or core DNS plugin. Supply custom domain block/allow lists in addition to builtin lists maintained by the ad-blocking community.

1Hosts - World's most advanced DNS filter-/blocklists!

little-snitch-blocklist - 🛡 A malicious URL blocklist that protects you from advertisements, malwares, spams, statistics & trackers on both web browsing and applications.

trackerslist - Updated list of public BitTorrent trackers

the-quantum-ad-list

NextDNS-Config - Setup guide for NextDNS, a DoH proxy with advanced capabilities.