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> Can you explain how you do that? Probably Pi-Hole running on. Raspberry Pi. https://pi-hole.net https://pi-hole.net

• ryandrake 9y ago
  Yea, not exactly Pi-Hole, but the same concept. dnsmasq running on router, with a big list of ad-serving domains and hosts resolving to 0.0.0.0
  • fb03 9y ago
    Wow, nice and simple. Is that list available in some repository? would like to implement that since I run a dnsmasq bearing router at my home border as well.
    • Pete_D 9y ago
      I do the same - my approach was to take some of the popular /etc/hosts files (like http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero) and sed them into dnsmasq format: # before: 0.0.0.0 evil.biz # after: address=/evil.biz/0.0.0.0 sed 's#^0\.0\.0\.0[[:space:]]*\([^:]*\)$#address=/\1/0.0.0.0#' which goes in a file in /etc/dnsmasq.d/, with this line in /etc/dnsmasq.conf: conf-dir=/etc/dnsmasq.d The results can be trimmed a lot, e.g. if you have rules for a.evil.biz and b.evil.biz, you can usually reduce those to a rule for just evil.biz. I wrote some scripts to help with this, which are now at https://petedeas.co.uk/dnsmasq/ https://petedeas.co.uk/dnsmasq/. I might write something up about the process later.
    • ryandrake 9y ago
      Here's a nice repo with a "starting point" for hostnames and domains to block: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists