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.

Instructions available for:

• AdGuard Home
• AdGuard
• Little Snitch
• Open Snitch
• uBlock Origin
• Brave
• pfBlockerNG
• PiHole

Also known to be working with:

• Dnsmasq
• Adblock Plus
• Blokada
• Rethink DNS
• DNSCloak
• InviZible
• Unbound
• OPNsense

How to add?

AdGuard Home

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

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

5. Press Save

AdGuard

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

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

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

1. Open the AdGuard settings
2. Navigate to Filters
3. Scroll down to Custom
4. Enable the custom switch
5. Click on Custom
6. Click Add custom filter
7. Paste the URL from below:

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

8. For the best impact enable the trusted checkbox
9. Click Subscribe

Little Snitch

1. Click here to add the list
2. Change update to daily
3. Check the active checkbox
4. Press Subscribe

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

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

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

5. Press Subscribe...
6. Change update to daily
7. Check the active checkbox
8. Press Subscribe

Open Snitch

1. 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

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

/media/ph00lt0-blocklis/blocklist.txt

6. Press Apply

uBlock Origin

1. Click here to add the list
2. Click the Subscribe button

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

1. ⚙ Open the uBO︎ Dashboard
2. Navigate to Filter lists
3. Scroll down to + Custom
4. Check Import…
5. Paste the URL from below

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

6. Click the Apply changes button on top of the page.

Brave

1. Open the hamburger menu ≡
2. Open Settings
3. Open Shields in the menu on the left
4. Open Content filtering at the bottom
5. Under Add custom filter lists paste the URL from below

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

6. Click Add

pfBlockerNG

Install pfBlockerNG in pfSense

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

Add the blocklist to pfBlockerNG

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

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

4. Click safe.
5. 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

1. Go to Group Management
2. Select Adlist
3. Paste the Address from below

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

4. Press Add

To update your filters

5. Go to Tools/Update Gravity
6. 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.