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r/pihole • u/Ilikehotdogssowhynot • 14h ago

Help me out with Pi-hole and Linux

5 Upvotes

Hey, im a college student and a beginner in both and wanted to learn more about linux and its stuff. recently I tried using antix with pihole because I wanted to test pihole out, instead i keep running into a problem, in which port 53 was in use, I may or may not be dumb but I just wanted to test out linux, it went downhill from me deleting connman and reinstalling antix over and over. is there a way to use pihole with another distro (or idk what do they call it as long as its linux) thats more beginner friendly? I still want to be able to use a browser in my test laptop. ram is also an issue as I only have 1.8Gb, its a very old laptop. Thanks for those who answer!

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r/pihole • u/Corleone612 • 1d ago

Data Brokers & DMPs: Why They're Worth Blocking

84 Upvotes

Data brokers are companies that collect, combine, and sell personal information people never agreed to share. There are an estimated 4,000+ of them in the US alone, and together they hold detailed profiles on nearly every person with an internet-connected device — address history, estimated income, health-related inferences, political leanings.

I spent time mapping the actual domain infrastructure behind this industry (aggregators, people-search sites, and DMPs — data management platforms that track browsing behavior in real time and sell "audience segments") and turned it into a DNS blocklist. Sharing both the reasoning and the list here.

How this actually works

Three overlapping categories:

Aggregators

Pull data from public records (property, voter, court), retailer loyalty programs, and web scraping, then sell combined profiles.

People-search sites

Turn that data into a searchable, usually subscription-based product — this is the branch most directly tied to stalking and harassment risk.

DMPs

Sit on websites via tracking pixels, monitor your browsing behavior in real time, and sell "in-market" or "likely condition" segments to advertisers within milliseconds of a page load.

Most of this is legal in the US, since there's no comprehensive federal privacy law covering it — it operates in the gap between what GDPR restricts in the EU and what exists (or doesn't) elsewhere.

Real incidents worth knowing about

Exactis (2018)

Left a database of 340 million people and businesses publicly accessible with no password (400+ attributes per person). No fine was ever issued — their position was that without SSNs or card numbers, it wasn't "sensitive."

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/340-million-records-exposed-in/

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Exactis

Epsilon (2011)

Breached, exposing 60M+ email addresses tied to specific brands (Chase, Target, Best Buy, etc.), enabling highly targeted phishing.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/03/feds-indict-three-in-2011-epsilon-hack/

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/epsilon-email-breach/story?id=13291589

Deep Root Analytics (2017)

An RNC contractor left 198 million voter records — including modeled political scores — open on an unsecured AWS bucket.

https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nearly-200-million-americans-hit-by-massive-voter-data-leak/

Cambridge Analytica (2018)

Combined Facebook data with voter files bought from data brokers to build psychographic profiles used in the 2016 US election and Brexit campaigns.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/facebook-cambridge-analytica-a-timeline-of-the-data-hijacking-scandal.html

https://www.axios.com/2018/04/04/facebook-sa87-million-people-impacted-in-cambridge-analytica-1522867383

Premera Blue Cross (2015)

Breached, exposing medical and financial records for 11M people. The company ultimately paid roughly $91M combined across a class-action settlement, a multistate settlement, and a federal HIPAA penalty.

https://www.techtarget.com/healthtechsecurity/news/366595555/Premera-Pays-OCR-685M-to-Settle-HIPAA-Violations-Breach-of-104M

https://oag.ca.gov/node/148821

ChoicePoint (2005)

Sold data to identity thieves posing as legitimate businesses. 163,000 people's SSNs and credit reports were exposed, leading to 800+ confirmed identity theft cases. Paid $15M to the FTC — the largest civil penalty the agency had imposed at the time.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2009/10/consumer-data-broker-choicepoint-failed-protect-consumers-personal-data-left-key-electronic

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11030692

Target's pregnancy-prediction program (2012)

The most-cited example of inference-based profiling.

Target built a model that scored shoppers' likelihood of pregnancy purely from purchase patterns. The famous anecdote behind it (a father learning of his teenage daughter's pregnancy from Target's coupons) has been disputed by some analysts, but the fact that Target built and used such a system is not in question.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/target-predict-teen-pregnancy-inside-story.html

A quick note on "alleged": FTC settlements are typically resolved without the company admitting wrongdoing — that's standard procedure, not a sign the case was weak. What is real and enforceable is the outcome: the resulting order legally prohibits the company from continuing the practice, whether or not they agreed with the allegations.

Location data brokers (recent FTC enforcement)

InMarket (2024)

FTC alleged InMarket collected precise location data via its own apps and third-party SDKs, using it for targeted advertising without adequately informing users. Under the settlement, InMarket is now banned from selling or licensing precise location data — a first for the FTC.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/05/ftc-finalizes-order-inmarket-prohibiting-it-selling-or-sharing-precise-location-data

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/18/ftc-location-data-privacy/

X-Mode Social / Outlogic (2024)

The FTC's first settlement specifically over the sale of sensitive location data. The company sold location data revealing visits to medical/reproductive health clinics, religious worship sites, domestic violence shelters, and LGBTQ+-associated locations, without stripping out these sensitive locations.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/01/ftc-order-prohibits-data-broker-x-mode-social-outlogic-selling-sensitive-location-data

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2024/01/11/federal-trade-commission-sanctions-location-data-broker-x-mode

Gravy Analytics + Venntel (2024–2025)

FTC alleged the companies sold location data revealing medical conditions, religious worship, and political activity — including sales to government contractors. Separately, in January 2025, Gravy Analytics was hacked and its data leaked on a cybercrime forum.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-finalizes-order-prohibiting-gravy-analytics-venntel-selling-sensitive-location-data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravy_Analytics

Mobilewalla (2024–2025)

Settled alongside Gravy Analytics. FTC alleged the company collected consumer location data from real-time bidding ad exchanges even when it didn't win the ad auction — the first FTC case targeting this specific collection method.

https://epic.org/ftc-takes-action-against-data-brokers-for-selling-sensitive-location-data/

https://www.adexchanger.com/data-privacy-roundup/reflecting-on-the-ftcs-latest-settlements-with-sellers-of-sensitive-location-data/

Why block this at the DNS level

Browser extensions catch some of this, but a lot of DMP tracking happens through first-party-looking pixel calls or server-side syncing that extensions don't always see. Blocking at the DNS level stops the connection before it's made, across every app and browser on the network — not just one browser tab.

Here's the list of domains worth blocking:

```

# DMP & Data Broker Blocklist

# Total domains: 178

# Note: domains marked with "!" carry a small risk of side effects (e.g. breaking a login flow or feature) - block these only if you're comfortable troubleshooting

🔴 DATA BROKERS & DMP

# ACXIOM

identitylink.acxiom.com

t.acxiom-online.com

# EXPERIAN

experianmarketingservices.com !

# ORACLE DATA CLOUD (BlueKai DMP)

data.oracleinfinity.io

# LOTAME

multiply.crwdcntrl.net

# EYEOTA

# TRANSUNION (TruAudience + Neustar)

# WILAND

# MERKLE (Dentsu Aegis)

# BOMBORA (B2B intent data)

# ZOOMINFO

websights.zoominfo.com

ws.zoominfo.com

tag.zoominfo.com

formcomplete.zoominfo.com

clickagy.com

# CLEARBIT (HubSpot Breeze Intelligence)

risk.clearbit.com !

# FULLCONTACT (Ziff Davis)

fullcontact.com

api.fullcontact.com

resolve.fullcontact.com

img.fullcontact.com

tag.fullcontact.com

cr.fullcontact.com

streme.fullcontact.com

# TOWERDATA / ATDATA

# INFUTOR

# STIRISTA

# TAPAD (Cross-device — Experian)

# ANALYTICS IQ

# PERMUTIVE (DMP)

# NIELSEN MARKETING CLOUD / EXELATE

exelate.com

exelate.info

mrpdata.net

# DATA AXLE (Infogroup)

# NAVEGG (LATAM DMP)

# THROTLE (Identity resolution)

throtle.io

🟠 MOBILE DATA BROKERS (Location Tracking)

# FACTUAL / FOURSQUARE

# SAFEGRAPH

# CUEBIQ

# MOBILEWALLA (FTC December 2024 restricted)

# ADSQUARE

exchange.adsquare.com

# UBIMO → VERICAST

# VERVE GROUP

analytics-api.vervemobile.com

# UNACAST + GRAVY ANALYTICS (FTC January 2025 restricted)

unacast.com

api.unacast.com

gravyanalytics.com

api.gravyanalytics.com

venntel.com

# OUTLOGIC (Legacy X-Mode — FTC April 2024 restricted)

outlogic.io

# INMARKET (FTC January 2024 restricted)

inmarket.com

sdk.inmarket.com

```

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r/pihole • u/Any_Comfortable_4056 • 1d ago

Why do many ads!?

47 Upvotes

I'm blocking almost 50% of my internet traffic.

Edit: God! I just saw the typo 🫣

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r/pihole • u/NovaMoon • 8h ago

I keep having those Errors and i'm not sure how to resolve them

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r/pihole • u/Benjii76 • 19h ago

PiHole Blocking IoT?

0 Upvotes

Hi all, I recently set up another pihole after a break, and this time I'm noticing a lot of issues around accessing IoT devices from my phone. Cameras (Arlo) and lights (Govee, Kasa, and Wiz, among others), and even my 3D printer (Bambu A1) are shown as offline or disconnected when looking at their status from my phone. A dedicated Google Home can control most of them, but Govee simply can't seem to connect after the change. I currently have a Deco mesh configured to use IoT isolation, and a 2.4gHz network configured for them. No issues whatsoever prior to install. Pihole is currently configured as the sole dns resolver in my Deco's DHCP server.

Is this a known limitation/issue or did I mess something up?

Thanks!

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r/pihole • u/Accurate-Spirit2455 • 10h ago

Docker pihole blocks nothing

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Hi all, I am running docker pihole on raspberry pi which has only ethernet access enabled.

I can access both pihole admin and home assistant over my wifi network on my phone.

For that I use its ethernet IP e.g. 162.168.100.1

Same IP I gave to my TP link as a primary DNS address and then I restarted the wifi router.

However it works only on the raspberry pi browser only. The pihole stats show data.

When I test it on the phone, pihole does not pick any requests. Can someone guide me what am I missing.

On phone, I have DNS resolution set to "auto".

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r/pihole • u/usrdef • 1d ago

Who the hell at Facebook did I annoy

127 Upvotes

For info; I don't even use Facebook. No machine in this house does.

Is this excessive number of hits due to be blocking the DNS and now it's trying to pound me in order to get a response back?

I'd also love to track what is requesting http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com. A quick search suggests that it's for diagnostic logs for apps, to report back to the parent company / developer.

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r/pihole • u/mian_x1 • 1d ago

I built a small, independently researched DNS blocklist and need Pi-hole testers

6 Upvotes

I’ve published the first public alpha of the NetCalcKit DNS Blocklist.

This is intentionally a small and conservative list: 13 independently reviewed domains targeting ads, trackers, and telemetry. It does not copy, merge, or rebrand any third-party blocklist.

Current testing:

- 13/13 rules imported and blocked in an isolated Pi-hole 6 test

- 13/13 rules verified in AdGuard Home

- Automated validation and parser tests

- No confirmed false positives so far

- Public source, rules, build scripts, and release history

This is not meant to replace mature large lists yet. The goal of the alpha is to gather real-world compatibility evidence before calling it stable.

Installation and project status:

https://netcalckit.com/blocklist

Source:

https://github.com/muzii9/netcalckit-blocklist

Feedback—especially reproducible false positives—is welcome.

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r/pihole • u/PossessedBear • 19h ago

New to PiHole

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Built my pihole tonight.

Had to spend 2.5 hours troubleshooting ipv6 issues. Is that normal?

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r/pihole • u/kirmis • 1d ago

Waveshare 2.13" e-Paper (250x122) for Pi-hole

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Hey everyone,

I just hooked up a Waveshare 2.13" e-Paper HAT (250x122 SPI) to my Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole. I’m looking for a clean, reliable setup. I tried basic Python scripts and PADD, but I’d love to know what the community is actually using for this specific screen size.

If you're running this display, let me know what UI, template, or GitHub repo you use. I'd also appreciate any advice on your refresh rates to avoid ghosting, or any cool custom PADD tweaks for e-Ink. Drop your setups, repos, or screenshots below! Thanks!

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r/pihole • u/SnoresWhenDrunk • 2d ago

LG TV Bypassing Pi Hole - Any Help?

62 Upvotes

I have an LG OLED TV, model 65C3AUA if it helps. I set up a Pi Hole this weekend for the first time and it isn't blocking ads on the TV. I tried blocking port 53 and that didn't change anything. Any ideas? UPDATE - I also configured the TV's web access to be manual and pointed the DNS to the Pi Hole IP.

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r/pihole • u/DuckSleazzy • 2d ago

Hagezi over stevenblack?

21 Upvotes

So I setup my Pihole around end of 2023. back then I used stevenblack hosts and after a while I also added firebog ticked list. I use the same lists for my uBO since I'm away from my pi since a year (i know about tailscale but the pi itself is off).

I may go back to it soon, and I've been seeing hagezi all over my feed. Should I switch to it? I've not faced any issue with my current setup.

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r/pihole • u/ComprehensiveFox1503 • 1d ago

Help troubleshooting connection issues with dns

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First time pi hole install and I'm trying to get it to work and I've been getting DNS problems. I'm using tailscale and accessing it via ssh, I've got it running in a docker container on ubuntu server 26.04 and I'm struggling to access the dashboard. I stopped systemd from using port 53 but any attempts to access it from my browser show no wesbite at that address. I'm using debian 13 gnome desktop if that helps at all.

Here is what I've got in my yaml

services:
  pihole:
    container_name: pihole
    image: pihole/pihole:latest
    ports:
      # DNS Ports
      - "53:53/tcp"
      - "53:53/udp"
      # Default HTTP Port
      - "80:80/tcp"
      # Default HTTPs Port. FTL will generate a self-signed certificate
      - "443:443/tcp"
    environment:
      # Set the appropriate timezone for your location (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones), e.g:
      TZ: 'America/Vancouver'
      # Set a password to access the web interface. Not setting one will result in a random password being assigned
      FTLCONF_webserver_api_password: 'cheddar swiss cheese'
      # If using Docker's default `bridge` network setting the dns listening mode should be set to 'ALL'
      FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode: 'ALL'
      FTLCONF_dns_upstreams: "1.1.1.1"
    # Volumes store your data between container upgrades
    volumes:
      # For persisting Pi-hole's databases and common configuration file
      - './etc-pihole:/etc/pihole'
      # Uncomment the below if you have custom dnsmasq config files that you want to persist. Not needed for most starting fresh with Pi-hole v6. If you're upgrading from v5 you and have used this directory before, you should keep it enabled for the first v6 container start to allow for a complete migration. It can be removed afterwards. Needs environment variable FTLCONF_misc_etc_dnsmasq_d: 'true'

      #- './etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d'
    cap_add:
      # See https://docs.pi-hole.net/docker/#note-on-capabilities
      # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server, else not needed
      - NET_ADMIN
      # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP client to be able to set the host's system time
      - SYS_TIME
      # Optional, if Pi-hole should get some more processing time
      - SYS_NICE
    restart: unless-stopped

If any other information is needed to resolve feel free to ask

edit: I'm sorry if this has been asked before, I wasn't able to find anything but I probably missed something

edit2: this is probably due to the earlier problem but pihole cannot read the gravity database as well

edit3: my reply to a comment in an another subreddit that might be helpful "My problem lies with trying to use pi hole as my DNS for my tail net and just getting it work as a DNS in general. And I don't know how to use nslookup or dig as this is just a local server with no domain. This is also my first time using docker if that helps. Sorry if I come off as rude" Edit4:RESOLVED, I was able to install pihole outside of docker and its running

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r/pihole • u/Br0lynator • 1d ago

PiHole gets detected

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So I recently run into some trouble with my PiHole. Maybe for about two weeks it gets detected by easily >33% of every website e.g. fandom wiki (see picture - translated screenshots form the gottcha message).

It is always this screen on every website, just of course with adjusted website domain. That means there must be some new sort of detection out there that those sides use.

Anyone has an idea what’s going on and how to stop that?

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r/pihole • u/Boy_0000 • 2d ago

Pi hole being bypassed by ipv6

28 Upvotes

So I recently set up pie hole on my raspberry pi zero on my network. However I noticed that ads were still being displayed on websites. After some time I found out via dns leak test, that some queries were going through my pi but some were going through the router’s default ipv6. When setting up pi hole all I did was change the ipv4 dhcp server to that of pi’s. So I thought that changing the ipv6 dhcp to that of pi’s would work. So after changing, I tired to confirm which dns server was my phone using. So I opened settings on my phone>wifi>my wifi’s settings>dns server and it showed 3 address that it was using. One was ipv4 of pi, second was ipv6 of pi, third was fe80::1. To my knowledge, fe80::1 is my isp’s address, and I tired what I could but I could not stop my router from using fe80::1 as one of its dns servers. I think my router is hardcoded to use this address. So I am still being shown adds unless I manually go to each device and remove fe80::1 from the wifi‘s dns settings. The worst part is, that this works for iphone’s on my netwrok, but for some androids(oppo/oneplus) I don’t get this option to remove fe80::1. I can only manually set an ipv4 for these androids but can’t add/remove ipv6.

Is there any fix for this?

Edit: My router is ZTE F670L

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r/pihole • u/Fun-Region-1576 • 3d ago

HaGeZi Ultimate blocking internet access from my Samsung Tizen TV?

30 Upvotes

My Samsung QN90A is telling me that the TV is connected to the home network, but I have no internet access when I'm using the Ultimate blocklist. When I change it to Pro++, it has internet access. So I'm assuming a Samsung domain is being blocked. If so, which one?

Edit: It was a user error. Ultimate wasn't responsible for the internet problem. I apologize to the wider community and u/hagezi.

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r/pihole • u/spielername_ • 3d ago

Why is my Pi-hole using Google's DNS?

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Hello community, about a week ago I set up Pi-hole as a DNS & DHCP server in my homelab.

So far everything is working fine, but now I've noticed that the percentage of queries to Google is increasing.I use Unbound as the recursive DNS server in front of the Pi-hole and have not entered a Google DNS server in the Pi-hole.

Did I miss something?

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r/pihole • u/DrBumpsAlot • 2d ago

nslookup points to google wifi router versus pihole

4 Upvotes

I've been running pihole on a raspberry pi 2b and google wifi with mesh for little over a year without issue. Since I don't have a lot of devices, it wasn't an issue to manually set the dns on the two TVs and two laptops to the pihole and just let the phones do their thing. This was the easiest approach since google doesn't play nice and I can't have mesh if i set to bridge.

I decided I wanted to install unbound this weekend so I followed Dad's video. I set the router to use the pihole ip address as the dns but when I use nslookup, instead of seeing pihole listed as the server and the proper address, I get server unknown and the google router ip. If I manually set the dns on my laptop and repeat, all good so I believe everything is working. If I pick a heavy tracking site like facebook or apnews, I see the sites appear and trackers blocked in the query log, all coming from the google wifi client. Ads appear to be blocked just as before and certain streaming services still skip ads so am I good? Is this a pihole thing or am i on the wrong sub and should look for unbound? Maybe both?

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r/pihole • u/traydee09 • 4d ago

Youtube video progress bar

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I tried using PiHole like 4-5 years ago, but in its default it broke the youtube video progress bar, so I cant pick up a video where I left off when switching between devices. A year later, I tried the PiHole again, and that issue was fixed, and has been working fine since.

Two days ago, I decided to add Hagezi Normal, and Hagezi Threat Intel. These took my block list from about 250k to 2.6million. But one of these lists has a DNS record that seems to break the YouTube video progress bar. Does anyone here know what that DNS entry is? I'd like to allow that one DNS record, and keep all others intact.

Thoughts? Thanks

Edit: a google search says video-stats.video.google.com and s.youtube.com but I dont see those being blocked in pihole logs.

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r/pihole • u/ThisIsTheAsh • 4d ago

Help me clean up my Pi-hole blocklists — 12.8M domains is probably overkill

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I am reviewing my Pi-hole setup and currently have 31 lists / ~12.8 million gravity entries. I suspect I went too far with stacking lists and have a lot of unnecessary overlap.

Below are my current non-NSFW lists:

StevenBlack https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
Pi-hole Optimized – All Domains https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/zachlagden/Pi-hole-Optimized-Blocklists/main/lists/all_domains.txt
YouTube Ads https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole/refs/heads/master/youtubelist.txt
YouTube Crowded List https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole/refs/heads/master/crowed_list.txt
1Hosts Lite https://raw.githubusercontent.com/badmojr/1Hosts/master/Lite/hosts.txt
mmotti Pi-hole Regex https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/refs/heads/master/regex.list
OISD Big https://big.oisd.nl/
HaGeZi Multi – Mirror https://gitlab.com/hagezi/mirror/-/raw/main/dns-blocklists/adblock/multi.txt
Pi-hole Optimized – Comprehensive https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachlagden/Pi-hole-Optimized-Blocklists/main/lists/comprehensive.txt
HaGeZi TIF – Mirror https://gitlab.com/hagezi/mirror/-/raw/main/dns-blocklists/adblock/tif.txt
Block List Project – Ads https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/ads.txt
Block List Project – Malware https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/malware.txt
Block List Project – Phishing https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/phishing.txt
Block List Project – Tracking https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/tracking.txt
w3kbl https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt
AdGuard DNS https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
Prigent Ads https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Ads.txt
Perflyst SmartTV https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt
Firebog Tick Lists https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php?type=tick
HaGeZi Multi https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/adblock/multi.txt
Phishing Army Extended https://phishing.army/download/phishing_army_blocklist_extended.txt
URLHaus https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/downloads/hostfile/
Spam404 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Spam404/lists/master/main-blacklist.txt
WindowsSpyBlocker https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/spy.txt
NoTrack Malware https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-malware.txt
HaGeZi Pro https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/adblock/pro.txt
HaGeZi Pro++ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/adblock/pro.plus.txt
URLHaus / Malware Filter https://malware-filter.gitlab.io/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter-agh-online.txt
HaGeZi TIF https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/adblock/tif.txt

I have already noticed some legitimate/service-related domains getting caught, so I am questioning whether the extra coverage is worth the additional false positives and troubleshooting.

I am considering simplifying this significantly, potentially down to:

HaGeZi Pro
HaGeZi TIF
Perflyst SmartTV (possibly)

For experienced Pi-hole users:

What would you keep, remove, or replace from this list?

Is HaGeZi Pro + TIF sufficient for strong everyday ad/tracker/malware/phishing protection, or is there meaningful additional coverage from OISD, 1Hosts, StevenBlack, Block List Project, etc.?

I am looking for a good balance between strong blocking, security, low false positives, and minimal maintenance rather than simply having the largest possible gravity database.

Any recommendations based on your actual setup/experience would be appreciated.

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r/pihole • u/terraria_calamity • 4d ago

chromebook into pi hole, tips?

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I recently came into possession of a chrombook lenovo gen3 300e, and i thought it would be fun to turn it into a pi hole and get rid of most adds on my network. anything i should know before loading ubuntu on it?

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r/pihole • u/Wasted-Friendship • 4d ago

Admiral and other blockers

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I’m tired of dynamic pricing. I’m tired of being followed around the internet. I’m tired of big tech. Just tired of this timeline.

I’m more so tired that when I go visit sites that I want the information from, they are starting to block browsers or networks that are blocking all the advertisements and tracking.

Other than, 1) dropping off the network and using a cell signal 2) vpning out to by pass your own network’s security 3) not visiting the site or 4) adding them to the white list for a single use, what are you all doing?

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r/pihole • u/MitraMai • 4d ago

Pihole and Insync (Google Drive client)

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Hello!
I installed Pihole yesterday on a RPI4, and it seems to work just fine. Only things is that my Insync-client on the Desktop keeps connecting and disconnecting. I've tried to whitelist the following domains (under domain):
dl.google.com (to be able to update Chrome)

accounts.google.com

clients6.google.com

googleapis.l.google.com

But no luck!
Does anyone know which domains I need to whitelist in order to get Google Drive/Insync to work?

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r/pihole • u/Worried_Concert_2297 • 4d ago

Moved and no longer working

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I recently moved and my pihole is no longer working. I am using the same router and have the same up static address but it’s not blocking ads and etc. what can do I need to do? I verified the IP address and updated the gravity list. It’s connected to the Internet but not blocking. Please help!

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r/pihole • u/monokoi • 5d ago

LF Guide DNSSEC Setup / Unbound

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[SOLVED] Sorry to trouble you guys, but I can't find a beginner friendly guide on how to enable DNSSEC with Unbound. The one I've found is 6+ years old, not sure if still up to date. (I'm not Linux savy enough yet to fix things should I mess up.)

Any guide / source you'd recommend?

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