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Just installed pihole - Which adlists are you using? (lemm.ee)
submitted 11 months ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/pihole@lemmy.ml
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So I reinstalled everything and the latest pihole just came with one adlist, about 250K entries.

I mostly just want to make sure we're blocking adware and trackers but malware, crypto nonsense, etc... would be good too.

Thanks for suggestions.

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[–] plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use these for guidance https://github.com/jacklul/pihole-updatelists https://firebog.net/

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks buy i'm not really clear what this means:

If you're not using remote lists like the ones mentioned above then this script will be useless to you - Pi-hole already updates the lists weekly automatically.

Aren't all lists remote lists?

[–] plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I read it as the tool helps maintain a dynamic list of adlists, it will help add and remove lists based on the configuration whereas if you just add a bunch of adlists yourself (like in the gui), pihole will monitor them for domain updates weekly but it's always the same set of adlists.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ohhhhhhhhh, I see. Thanks!

I'm definitely going to keep it simple, add a few lists manually now and then leave it alone.

[–] plantsmakemehappy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That's how I started as well. You can always change it up later and whitelist/blacklist domains manually as you go.