Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network

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  • oisd

    oisd blocklist

    I’ve been using https://oisd.nl/ on my network for some time (just cronned into an unbound config file) and nothing breaks.

    If you report a website breaking to the maintainer, he removes the offending block.

    Works well, I can recommend it.

    And it reminds my to send them a little money in thanks.

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  • docs

    The official Pi-hole documentation (by pi-hole)

    It's a DNS proxy, like pi-hole, but it seems a lot more powerful than Pi-hole that is basically just a configured dnsmasq server to be user-friendly.

    https://docs.pi-hole.net/

  • AdGuardHome

    Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

    Also AdGuardhome will use optimistic caching, which is great.

    https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/discussions/4002#...

  • redwood

    Web content filter that runs as an HTTP proxy (by andybalholm)

    > Blocking of ... response IP addresses (against IP lists)

    So blocky can block IP addresses? If so it's more powerful than traditional DNS blockers like Pi-Hole and AdGuard Home.

    > Logging of DNS queries per day / per client in CSV format or MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL database

    May want to include a time series database, like InfluxDB

    For those needing layer 7 control, https://github.com/andybalholm/redwood is a nice Go option.

  • yattee

    Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS

    Yattee

    https://github.com/yattee/yattee

    it requires either public or private Piped or Invidious instaces [1].

    1. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

    2. https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

  • Piped

    An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

    Yattee

    https://github.com/yattee/yattee

    it requires either public or private Piped or Invidious instaces [1].

    1. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

    2. https://docs.invidious.io/instances/

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