smed79 / blacklist

BlackList of domains known to host advertisements, tracking, mining and other nasty purposes

BlackList

A blacklist of bad domains in DNS hosts format and Adblock Plus syntax.

Purpose

Blocking bad domains used for serving advertisements, tracking, mining, and other nasty content.

What is a host file?

The hosts file, is a plain-text file used by all operating systems to map hostnames to IP addresses. Host file preferred over DNS so if a domain name is resolved by the hosts file, the request never leaves your computer.

Location of your hosts file

• Linux / Mac OS X, iOS, Android: /etc/hosts
• Winodws XP, 7, 8.0, 8.1, 10: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
• Windows 2000: C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

What is an adblock?

Ad blocking is a software designed to prevent advertisements from appearing on a web page or an application.

Wikis

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(computing)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)
• https://adblockplus.org/filters

Raw links

• HOSTS file : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smed79/blacklist/master/hosts.txt
• Adblock Plus filter list : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smed79/blacklist/master/abp.txt | Subscribe

Related awesome projects

• https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist
• https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Badd-Boyz-Hosts
• https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
• https://github.com/easylist/easylist

Useful tools

• https://github.com/funilrys/PyFunceble (powerful script to check the availability or syntax of domains)

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License

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/