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hosts
🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
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privacybadger
Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block hidden trackers
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FilterLists
:shield: The independent, comprehensive directory of filter and host lists for advertisements, trackers, malware, and annoyances.
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Docker-Traefik
Docker media and home server stack with Docker Compose, Traefik, CrowdSec, Google OAuth2/Authelia, and LetsEncrypt. Built with Deployrr and UDMS guides/videos.
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SPF Toolbox
SPFtoolbox is a Javascript and PHP app to look up DNS records such as SPF, MX, Whois, and more
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Hence, a higher number means a better blocky alternative or higher similarity.
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Blocky vs Pi-hole: Lightweight DNS Blocking
Blocky is a lightweight DNS proxy and ad blocker. It's a single Go binary with zero dependencies — no database, no web server, no PHP. Configuration is a single YAML file. Blocky GitHub
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Ask HN: What are you replacing uBlock Origin with?
This might be of interest to you:
https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky
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Self-Hosting DNS
Want to throw in blocky (https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky). Supports modern protocols and easy to configure in one file. Migrated to this from pi-hole and never looked back.
- Show HN: Blocky – Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network
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Would it make sense to run pihole in a kubernetes cluster with multiple instances?
I run multiple blocky instances in a kubernetes cluster. I don't know if it makes sense ... but I'm running kubernetes cluster at home, so making sense is relative ;p
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I have progressively been upgrading my small apartment lab over the last week
The PI is running a DNS proxy (https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky) and not much else at the moment.
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Give me your advice re. DNS, naming, nginx reverse proxy etc
I switched from pihole to https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky for internal DNS, and I found it to be a lot easier to use compared to pihole. Setting up DNS entries was as easy as typing a single line in their config.yml, and restarting the service.
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Anti-Affinity across namespaces and Deployments. Does it work?
You could try using blocky instead of pihole. It's stateless and much more friendly to run.
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In depth comparison: PiHole vs AdGuardHome vs Blocky ...
Link to the Projects' GitHub pages: 1. https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky [Blocky] 2. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome [AdguardHome] 3. https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole [Pi-hole]
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Issue deploying Pihole on kubernetes
Any specific feature you need from pihole that Blocky doesn't have? Blocky is a much nicer tool for AdBlocking especially if deployed in k8s because it's stateless and configured via a single config file. Plus it's written in Go!
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Basic blocky repo stats
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0xERR0R/blocky is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
blocky is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of blocky is Go.
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