Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

For those of us - myself included - who run a hosts file list (either using dnsmasq like Pi-hole or directly), here are the sources that Pi-hole use so you can add to your own solution: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/adlists.defau... There's a few on there I don't use and will look to implement. There's also a few they seem to have missed (perhaps intentionally?) so below I have included the lists I use in case it's useful for anyone else: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts…

I absolutely love the DNS based solution for ad-blocking and preventing tracking. I use AdGuard DNS on my PC (DNSCrypt) [0] and phone (DoTLS) [1], and it has improved performance of apps (not just websites), 'cause I guess there's a lot less going on under the hood now (trackers like new-relic and segment might be consuming a good percentage of resources which they wouldn't now since their domains are NX'ing?). What am I worried about is DNS based black-holing is…

Previous discussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19258717

What finally got me to setup pi-hole on an old Raspberry Pi was getting an LG OLED TV. The webOS apps for YouTube and Plex are pretty convenient, but the TV was absolutely packed with ads via the home screen and pop-up toasts. To add insult to injury, the home screen would lag for several seconds at boot while it pulled down all those ads. And then I discovered that even after opting out of all the telemetry options, it…