Pi-hole Blocklist Catalog

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🎯 Why This Catalog Exists (Other Than My Poor Life Choices)

Welcome, digital freedom fighter.
If you're here, you already know the pain: finding good Pi-hole blocklists is like digging through a dumpster behind a sketchy taco place.
Some are outdated, some are broken, and some aggressively block your bank, your kid’s school portal, your cat's Instagram, and that one site you claim you don’t visit.

This repository exists to fix that mess.

Instead of blindly throwing 10+ random lists into Pi-hole and praying, this catalog focuses on:

• ✅ High-quality, actively maintained blocklists
• ✅ Clear categories (ads, telemetry, malware, phishing, cryptomining, tracking, etc.)
• ✅ Realistic recommendations for home, lab, and enterprise
• ✅ Reducing breakage while still punching ads and malware in the face

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🧱 What This Catalog Is (And What It’s Not)

This catalog is:

• A curated list of trustworthy blocklists for Pi-hole v6+ and similar DNS-based tools
• A way to pick sane defaults without spending your weekend on forum archaeology
• A living reference you can drop into docs, homelab wikis, and “please-fix-our-network” tickets

This catalog is not:

• A “block the entire internet” collection
• A magic bullet that guarantees zero breakage
• A replacement for common sense (“maybe don’t deploy the nuclear malware list to Grandma’s iPad group”)

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📚 The Blocklist Catalog (The Good Stuff)

Looking for the actual list? Boom:

➡️ BLOCKLIST_CATALOG.md

Inside you’ll find:

• ✔ Validated for Pi-hole v6 compatibility, reachability, and recent maintenance signals
• ✔ Proper categories (ads, trackers, telemetry, malware, and other internet gremlins)
• ✔ Descriptions, reputation scores, and notes on false positives
• ✔ Suggested use-cases (home, lab, SOC, admin devices, etc.)

If you just want a quick starting point for a home Pi-hole:

1. Pick ONE baseline:

   • StevenBlack Unified Hosts or
   • Hagezi Multi Normal or
   • OISD Small or
   • 1Hosts (Lite)

2. Add a malware/phishing layer:

   • URLHaus Hostfile
   • ThreatFox Hostfile
   • Optionally one of the more aggressive lists if you like living dangerously

3. If you’re on Windows-heavy networks and enjoy telemetry-free vibes:

   • Consider the telemetry lists (in their own section) via Pi-hole groups only.

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🧪 Compatibility

These lists are designed for:

• Pi-hole v6+ (hosts & domain lists)
• DNS-based firewalls & filters:
  • Unbound
  • AdGuard Home
  • pfBlockerNG
  • Router-level DNS filtering (where compatible)

Each entry in the catalog includes:

• URL
• Category
• Maintainer
• Approximate reputation score
• Notes about aggressiveness, best use-cases, and gotchas

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⚠️ Use With Care (a.k.a. Don’t Blame Me For Your Broken Netflix)

Some lists are very aggressive. That’s great for:

• Admin workstations
• Security labs
• SOC environments

It’s… less great for:

• Family iPads
• Smart TVs that already barely function
• That one teacher who definitely will email if anything breaks

Use Pi-hole groups:

• Keep a sane baseline for everyone
• Assign aggressive malware/telemetry lists only to the devices that need them
• Whitelist sparingly and intentionally

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🧾 License

This repo is licensed under:

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0)

Because if we’re going to share the pain and joy of blocklists, we might as well do it the open-source way.

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⭐ Support This Madness

If you found this helpful—or mildly entertaining—drop a ⭐ on the repo.

It helps more Pi-hole users:

• Improve privacy
• Block the bad guys
• Break fewer websites
• And appreciate that sarcasm belongs in tech docs

Thanks for stopping by, you magnificent bandwidth-saving champion.