This tool allows quickly and easily bulk adding Allowlists and Block/Ad lists to your Pi-hole 5 setup.
Bonus: If you're running the pihole docker image (or one named pihole), it should be detected and offered as a default option.
TL; DR - some maintained lists and anything you can paste or a file
Currently the only source for maintained whitelists is anudeepND's allowlist. They are presented as:
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Allowlist Only - Domains that are safe to allow i.e does not contain any tracking or
advertising sites. This fixes many problems like YouTube watch history, videos on news sites and so on.
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Allowlist+Optional - These are needed depending on the service you use. They may contain some
tracking sites but sometimes it's necessary to add bad domains to make a few services to work.
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Allowlist+Referral - People who use services like Slickdeals and Fatwallet need a few sites
(most of them are either trackers or ads) to be whitelisted to work properly. This contains some analytics and ad serving sites like doubleclick.net and others. If you don't know what these services are, stay away from this list. Domains that are safe to whitelist i.e does not contain any tracking or advertising sites. This fixes many problems like YouTube watch history, videos on news sites and so on.
Currently the only source for maintained blocklists is firebog.net
- Non-crossed lists: For when someone is usually around to whitelist falsely blocked sites
- Ticked lists: For when installing Pi-hole where no one will be whitelisting falsely blocked sites
- All lists: For those who will always be around to whitelist falsely blocked sites
Both list types allow providing either a pasted in list or a file as your source of lists.
After adding lists, they must be loaded by running:
$ pihole -g
This tool will offer to do that for you.
When that finishes, you'll see each of listed in the Web Admin interface along with a comment to help identify them.
NOTE: If you need/want the blocklists added from firebog.net (and more) continually updated, check out pihole-updatelists which will also run great on a Pi.
- working pi-hole 5.0 installation
- python 3.6+ is required. That is available by default on at least Raspbian 10, so it should be available on your system.
If you don't sudo pip3 install, things won't work - possibly in a very confusing way. Definitely on Raspbian 10, so probably before that.
$ sudo pip3 install pihole5-list-tool --upgrade
Simply run:
$ sudo pihole5-list-tool
Here's basically what installing and running it will look like: