The Big Blocklist Collection
The Internet is full of unsavoury content: advertisers wanting to sell you stuff you don't need, trackers extracting and selling your data as if it were oil, and malicious content vying to hijack your favourite device. This collection hopes to help you minimise these issues, and to maintain a more enjoyable online presence, using the wonderful, free and open source utility known as Pi-hole.
On arrival, like a growing number of websites, Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers in order to view the article. After doing so, visitors were immediately served with pop-under malware, primed to infect their computers, and likely silently steal passwords, personal data and banking information. Or, as is popular worldwide with these malware "exploit kits," lock up their hard drives in exchange for Bitcoin ransom. 'Forbes Site, After Begging You To Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up A Steaming Pile Of Malware 'Ads'' - Techdirt, 2016
Before starting, here are some reading points:
- Lists in green and bulleted with a tick are least likely to interfere with browsing
- Lists that have a strike through them are not recommended for use (E.G: Many false postives, deprecated, biased)
- A tool to help keep your blocklists in sync is found here
- If you wish to automate the update of your blocklist sources, URL-only and CSV versions are found here
- Using lists hosted at
v.firebog.net
allows me to view very basic ongoing aggregated statistics via CloudFlare - These lists are painstakingly worked on by their respective maintainers. Please contact them first if you find false positives
- Avoid using mirrored consolidated lists, if possible; it deprives the original list maintainer of visits (meaning they may be less inclined to keep it up to date!)
Suspicious Lists
- PolishFiltersTeam KADhosts:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolishFiltersTeam/KADhosts/master/KADhosts.txt
- Fademind's Spammers:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Spam/hosts
- WaLLy3K's Blacklist:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt
- Matomo Referrer Spam:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/master/spammers.txt
- Someone Who Cares:https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts
- VeleSila yhosts:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VeleSila/yhosts/master/hosts
- Winhelp2002 MVPS:https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
- neoFelhz's neoHosts:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/neohostsbasic.txt
- RooneyMcNibNug's SNAFU list:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RooneyMcNibNug/pihole-stuff/master/SNAFU.txt
- paulgb's BarbBlock:https://paulgb.github.io/BarbBlock/blacklists/hosts-file.txt
- Andy Short:https://hostsfile.mine.nu/hosts0.txt
- Hostsfile.org:https://hostsfile.org/Downloads/hosts.txt
- Joe Wein:https://www.joewein.net/dl/bl/dom-bl-base.txt
- Kowabit BoD:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Kowabit.txt
- Mahakala:https://adblock.mahakala.is
Advertising Lists
- AdAway:https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
- Adguard DNS:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
- LanikSJ's Admiral Anti-Adblock:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Admiral.txt
- Anudeep ND's Blacklist:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master/adservers.txt
- Easylist:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
- Peter Lowe's Adservers:https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext
- Fademind's Unchecky Ads:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/UncheckyAds/hosts
- hostsVN:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigdargon/hostsVN/master/hosts
- Jdlingyu's Ad-wars:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdlingyu/ad-wars/master/hosts
- Disconnect Ads:https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt
Tracking & Telemetry Lists
- Easyprivacy:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt
- Fabrice Prigent's Ads:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Ads.txt
- Fademind's 2o7 Network Trackers:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.2o7Net/hosts
- Crazy Max's Microsoft Telemetry:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/spy.txt
- Geoffrey Frogeye's First-Party Trackers:https://hostfiles.frogeye.fr/firstparty-trackers-hosts.txt
- Lightswitch05's Ads & Tracking:https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/lists/ads-and-tracking-extended.txt
- Perflyst's Android Trackers:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/android-tracking.txt
- Perflyst's SmartTV Domains:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt
- Perflyst's Amazon FireTV Domains:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/AmazonFireTV.txt
- Quidsup Trackers:https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-blocklist.txt
- Geoffrey Frogeye's Multi-Party Trackers:https://hostfiles.frogeye.fr/multiparty-trackers-hosts.txt
- Kees1958's Top Ads & Trackers:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kees1958/W3C_annual_most_used_survey_blocklist/6b8c2411f22dda68b0b41757aeda10e50717a802/TOP_EU_US_Ads_Trackers_HOST
Malicious Lists
- DandelionSprout's Anti Malware Filter:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Alternate%20versions%20Anti-Malware%20List/AntiMalwareHosts.txt
- DigitalSide Threat-Intel:https://osint.digitalside.it/Threat-Intel/lists/latestdomains.txt
- Fabrice Prigent's Cryptojacking:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Crypto.txt
- Fademind's Risky Hosts:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Risk/hosts
- Mandiant APT1 Report:https://bitbucket.org/ethanr/dns-blacklists/raw/8575c9f96e5b4a1308f2f12394abd86d0927a4a0/bad_lists/Mandiant_APT1_Report_Appendix_D.txt
- Phishing Army's Extended Blocklist:https://phishing.army/download/phishing_army_blocklist_extended.txt
- Quidsup Malicious:https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-malware.txt
- RPiList Malware:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Malware.txt
- RPiList Phishing:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Phishing.txt
- Spam404:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Spam404/lists/master/main-blacklist.txt
- Echap's Stalkerware Indicators:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AssoEchap/stalkerware-indicators/master/generated/hosts
- URLhaus Malicious URL blocklist:https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/downloads/hostfile/
- Curbengh's Phishing filter:https://malware-filter.gitlab.io/malware-filter/phishing-filter-hosts.txt
- Fabrice Prigent's Malware:https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Malware.txt
- Disconnect Malvertising:https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt
- tg12's Phishtank List:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tg12/pihole-phishtank-list/master/list/phish_domains.txt
- Turkey High Risk Phishing Blacklist:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HorusTeknoloji/TR-PhishingList/master/url-lists.txt
Other Lists
- ZeroDot1 CoinBlockerLists:https://zerodot1.gitlab.io/CoinBlockerLists/hosts_browser
- Chad Mayfield (Top 1M):https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chadmayfield/my-pihole-blocklists/master/lists/pi_blocklist_porn_top1m.list
- Fabrice Prigent's Adult (LARGE: 90MB, 3M+ entries):https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Adult.txt
- Anudeep ND's Facebook Blacklist:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master/facebook.txt
Whitelisting Suggestions
The more blocklists you add, the more likely you'll come across a false positive. First, you'll want to check out Commonly Whitelisted Domains over at the Pi-hole forum, followed up by anudeepND's curated whitelist, and then you can see if anything below is relevant to your interests.
Tip: Whitelisting and Blacklisting can be performed on multiple sites separated by a space; e.g: pihole -w foo.bar.com baz.com
Link Shortners (Openphish)
- t.ly
- www.bit.ly
- bit.ly
- ow.ly
- tinyurl.com
EA / Origin (AdAway)
- cdn.optimizely.com (Used by Origin for content delivery)
- split.io(Used by EA Desktop. Symptom: Missing download button)
Blocked by various lists
- s.shopify.com