Blocklists for AdGuard Home, AdGuard, Little Snitch, Open Snitch, uBlock Origin, Brave Adblock, pfBlockerNG, and PiHole

Blocklist of analytics and annoyances found by our own research (either discovery or found by collecting sources). The trackers listed by DDG contain a lot of false postives, which we try to whitelist to the best of our ability. This blocklists aims at not breaking the exerpience of apps, if this occurs please report so.

We recommend against using the AdGuard DNS filter, they whitellist many tracking domains using @@ which overwrite your settings in the name of functionality. They allow for trackers in emails links and page ads in search results, something we do not compromise for.

This blocklists aims at blocking:

Stats and analytics (including privacy preserving ones such as Matomo)
Lottery and gambling companies
Data brokers and data collecting companies such as surveys
Debugging trackers
Ads
Font content delivery networks
Consent/cookie management platforms
Malware
Spyware
Remote Desktop Software
Scam and fraud
Phishing attempts
Domains used in email spam activity

Depending on where the list is used it will also block:

Cookie banners
Overflow blocking css
Ad loading scripts
Fingerprinting scripts
Tracking scripts and pixels
Analytical scripts
Newsletter scripts
Affliation scripts
Tracking parameters
Affiliation parameters

Recommended is to use uBlock Origin as it makes best use of the filters, as not all filters are supported by the other tools.

For home DNS resolving Adguard Home is superior in its functionality over PiHole.

Also known to be working with:

Dnsmasq
Adblock Plus
Blokada
Rethink DNS
DNSCloak
InviZible
Unbound
OPNsense

How to add?

AdGuard Home

Go to Filters/DNS blocklists
Press Add blocklist
Select Add a custom list
Chose name and paste the URL from below

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ph00lt0/blocklists/master/blocklist.txt

Press Save

AdGuard

With the app it's possible to subscribe by link:

Click here to add the list or follow steps below
For the best impact enable the trusted checkbox
Click Subscribe

For extension/add-on or when the link does not work, follow manual steps:

Open the AdGuard settings
Navigate to Filters
Scroll down to Custom
Enable the custom switch
Click on Custom
Click Add custom filter
Paste the URL from below:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ph00lt0/blocklists/master/blocklist.txt

For the best impact enable the trusted checkbox
Click Subscribe

Little Snitch

Click here to add the list
Change update to daily
Check the active checkbox
Press Subscribe

If the click and install doesn't work you can also add the list manually:

Open Little Snitch Rules... from the Little Snitch icon in the menu bar
In the sidebar look for Rule Groups when hovering on this a + button appears
Click the + button
Paste the URL from below:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ph00lt0/blocklist/master/little-snitch-blocklist.lsrules

Press Subscribe...
Change update to daily
Check the active checkbox
Press Subscribe

Open Snitch

Create a folder for list, create update script, crontab, and download the blocklist

mkdir /media/ph00lt0-blocklist/
echo "wget -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ph00lt0/blocklists/master/blocklist.txt -O /media/ph00lt0-blocklis/blocklist.txt" > updater.sh
chmod +x ./updater.sh
crontab -l | { cat; echo "00 11 * * * /media/ph00lt0-blocklis/updater.sh"; } | crontab -
./updater.sh

Create a new rule with 000-block-domains as name
Check the boxes Enable, Priority
Set the Duration to always
Check To this list of domains and select the blocklist downloaded to your machine at:

/media/ph00lt0-blocklis/blocklist.txt

Press Apply

uBlock Origin

Click here to add the list
Click the Subscribe button

If the click and install doesn't work you can also add the list manually:

⚙ Open the uBO︎ Dashboard
Navigate to Filter lists
Scroll down to + Custom
Check Import…
Paste the URL from below

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ph00lt0/blocklists/master/blocklist.txt

Click the Apply changes button on top of the page.

Brave

Open the hamburger menu ≡
Open Settings
Open Shields in the menu on the left
Open Content filtering at the bottom
Under Add custom filter lists paste the URL from below

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ph00lt0/blocklists/master/blocklist.txt

Click Add

pfBlockerNG

Install pfBlockerNG in pfSense

In your pfSense dashboard go to System > Package Manager
Click Available packages to open the tab
Find pfBlockerNG and click install
Click confirm
In your pfSense dashboard go to Firewall > pfBlockerNG
Follow the installation Wizard.
Make sure DNS resolver and DNSBL blocking are enabled under the DNSBL tab.

Add the blocklist to pfBlockerNG

In your pfSense dashboard go to Firewall > pfBlockerNG > DNSBL > DNSBL Groups
Click Add
Paste the URL from below

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ph00lt0/blocklists/master/unbound-blocklist.txt

Click safe.
Make sure auto updates are on, and you may force update to apply the list immediately.

PiHole

For PiHole there is a different blocklist, containing the same domains prefixed with '0.0.0.0' as localhost

Go to Group Management
Select Adlist
Paste the Address from below

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ph00lt0/blocklists/master/pihole-blocklist.txt

Press Add

To update your filters

Go to Tools/Update Gravity
Click Update

Contributing

Contributing is limited to members, instructions are available in CONTRIBUTING However feel free to report a broken website.

Broken sites

Feel free to report a broken website under Github issues. We will not remove any website because it has 'ethical' tracking, ads or whatsoever.

Can you make a list available for tool 'x'?

Feel free to open an issue with the request.

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