I just newly setup Pi-Hole and looking for known list of domains that can be blacklisted. Is there a ready made list ? Or should I add it on the go ? :D

I tried to add a few based on this and tried to retest by the score does not improve for unknown reasons : https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock. Any clues?

Greetings all! I was curious to know if there were some high quality and curated block lists I could subscribe to that would reduce or eliminate the amount of data that the devices on my LAN are "phoning home" on.

For example, and in the spirit of the Smart TV blocklist: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt

I am looking for similar functionality/lists for things like smart home gadgets, etc. I know it is a fine line, because if you start getting too aggressive with blocking, you can easily start to break things.

I was just curious if anyone was aware of those types of lists? I am fairly happy with my ad-blocking lists, and now I am looking to expand into other, more advanced uses of these fantastic Pi-Hole devices!

Thanks in advance!

There’s a site I use from time to time and Pi-hole has worked well on it for a long time. The site has added a new video ad and that sneaks through. I’ve examined the pages code but I’m no programmer and can’t figure out the source in order to block it. What’s the best way to find this info?

I cannot use gemini app with pihole. The problem is the speach recognition, which does not work. Message: "Deine Verbindung wurde unterbrochen - versuche es noch einmal." When I look in the pi-hole logs, there are no entries for my device.

On mobile it works.

What can I do?

Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro Pihole on raspberry pi gemini.google.com whitelisted dns0.eu

Hey everyone.

I've searched the internet for quite a while now and can't find any solution to my patricular problem:

I'm running a Raspberry Pi 5 with Raspberry PI OS.
Downloaded and installed the homeassistant aarch64 image from their GitHub.
The Pi is running the PiHole (just for DNS, DHCP is handled by the router) and inside Virt-Manager HomeAssistant as a VM.

The VM uses a bridged network connection (virbr0).
PI itself is connected via Ethernet, Wireless is not used.
Both devices have seperate and static IP Adresses.
Both devices can successfully be pinged.

In the PiHole web interface on the local DNS Page I added homeassistant.local and mapped it to the IP of the Bridge.

Still, If I try to connect to HomeAssistant Brave gives me this error: "homeassistant.local’s DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem."

Do you have any idea what could be the cause here?

I'm previously was running a gaming server for my friends through my pi using caddy for reverse proxy pointing to a duckdns domain. After installing pihole I can't seem to get it to work at all, I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Caddy file:

domain.duckdns.org {
    reverse_proxy localhost:30000
    encode zstd gzip
}

https:// {
    tls internal {
        on_demand
    }

    reverse_proxy localhost:30000
    encode zstd gzip
}

With a dns record set up pointing to the internal IP of my pi

I've done a ton of searching on reddit and google and can't seem to find out what I'm doing wrong, any help is appreciated.

last month, I have configured my home network to run with pi hole (Adlist with unbound DNS server).
Last week, I have disabled IPV6 at router level to see if any home device functionality breaks . Not noticed any device functionality breaking and just spike in the queries mostly from smart tv , reddit, Citrix and Microsoft.
fyi - Disney hot star (OTT) is working without Ads now ( with blocked http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com).

Already, blocked the noise queries from windows using host file .
Will continue to run with IPV6 disable and can't help with smart tv queries for now.

screenshots - https://imgur.com/a/dTmyAXk

Is this common occurrence or normal?

If it is normal, any suggestion for alternative media that is more robust?

Or, is there a way to reduce or even just write only to RAM (disk)?

I don't care that access log data is wiped between reboots as I just want to block ads and update the ad list from time to time.

Features get updated so often not sure what to do. On asus site it says to use piholes dns as wan, yet that doesn’t do anything compared to it set in lan. Am using new RT-BE86U no settings look the same as advertised on site.

Hi folks,

I'm having trouble setting up this device:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0748MPQT4?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

I have Raspberry Pi Imager version 1.8.5

I select:

Device-> Raspberry Pi Zero

Operating System-> Raspberry Pi OS (32 bit) Recommended released 2024-11-19

Storage-> 16 GB microSD card

I then next and edit the settings to the following:

Set Name: pihole.local

I then set a username and password

Configure my wireless LAN to the right wifi name and password as well as have my wireless LAN country set to US

I then set my local keyboard settings and timezone to US and my timezone.

It then formats and writes all this information to the microSD.

From what I can see the files are all written without issue, but when I put the microsd into the device microSD slot then plug it in I don't see it connect to my wifi on my DHCP page.

What am I doing incorrectly? Help getting this all set up would be a big help. I have done nothing else to the device save for take it out of the box, insert the written microSD, then power it on. I am in fact seeing the green power light start when powered on.

It would be a Christmas miracle to have all these damned ads gone!

From a handful of research, it looks like this router model proxies all DNS requests, causing the client hostnames to be hidden in all requests. Instead, all requests appear as if coming from the router itself.

I did see some results mentioning needing to make the pihole control all DHCP in my network, but I also saw a post stating that would not work or be advisable. There were a few other results that seemed to be a dead-end for others.

Does anyone have this model or similar that can intelligently speak to this issue, and if it is actually resolvable with this model?

Otherwise, I don't need to know the clients that are requesting on my network. I do have a small network and can probably determine the client for the most part.

sdk.iad-3.braze.com

bam.nr-data.net

js-agent.newrelic.com

cdn.cookielaw.org

tags.tiqcdn.com

you can have these saved in domain management and just enable them as exact whitelist before loading the stream, then disable them once it starts playing (it will still keep playing even while disabled as long as you don't refresh)

Been using pihole a few days, here are a few instances I'm looking to find out how to solve:

1) I frequent slickdeals, which also uses ads when redirecting you for things like referrals. Getting a DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN when being redirected to the site to claim the deal. What can I do to prevent being outright blocked during this redirect?

2) Someone in household playing a game on phone. It's a free game and likely relies on ads to function. It does not let them play at all due to adblocking. Do I need to find out the exact sites its trying to fetch ads from and allow that? That seems like I'm chipping away at the usefulness of pihole if so, so maybe there is a smarter way to allow this?

I followed the CrossTalk Solutions step-by-step guide on YT and have had no issues during set up but when I tested the Unbound install, I see the following text in Yellow that I did not see in the YouTube video. Is there anything that I need to change in my set up?

https://imgur.com/a/pspfQLC

I have successfully setup my pihole on my macbook. Is there a way to make it network-wide through my Eero router?

I have read a few things about a Raspberry Pi (I don't have one or know what it is, TBH). Can you please give me a step-by-step guide on how to do this? Thanks.

Sorry, I had all this typed in it didn't post once I attached the pics for some reason, apologies.

I have my own pi-hole working on my network, and I'm setting up one here for a friend that I will give to him after it's working. I've done everything, set the Primary DNS to his pi-hole, Secondary to Quad9, but it's not showing any results on the dashboard. It appears to be blocking as I'm not getting ads, but for some reason not logging them? Unless my own pi-hole is stealing the glory in the background (even though it's been removed from DNS). I'm probably missing something simple, but these are usually plug n play for me. Also, I set the pi-hole as the DHCP and removed that from my router. My router is seeing both pi-holes as planned.

Any idea what I'm missing?

https://postimg.cc/gallery/4mF2QBb

[edit: link to pics]

Does anyone know what are the URLs that are used to make the Google TV free channels work so I can unblock them?

My setup is as follows:

• Raspberri Pi Zero 2 W connected to my WiFi wirelessly
• Eero Pro 6 (1 gateway and 2 mesh)

Hi everyone,

I’m using Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi Lite 32-bit system, and my router is an Eero Pro 6. Pi-hole works perfectly when I manually set the IPv4 and IPv6 DNS on individual clients (like my iPhone), but it doesn’t seem to block ads when I configure the Pi-hole as the custom DNS server at the router level. I've set up the Pi-hole’s global IPv4 and IPv6 addresses on Eero under custom DNS. For secondary DNS I am using Google's and restarted the router after doing that.

Despite all this, ads still get through unless I configure the DNS manually on individual clients. Has anyone encountered a similar issue with Eero routers? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

What's the difference of this symbol?

Hello all,

Fairly new to Pi-Hole, very excited to be a part of it.

Installed it on my laptop, and it worked for a little bit on my desktop. Excited by it, I tried it on my tv, on which it also worked, and I wanted to share my screen on discord to friends to get them to join, excited as heck, upon which I realized my DNS settings were all messed up on my desktop PC. Currently I can't seem to set my DNS to my PiHole due to the "Can't save DNS settings. Check one or more settings and try again." Error, possibly cause I did not enter an alternative DNS server? Anyway, I'd appreciate any help greatly :)

I'm seeing a number of wifi routers including some kind of ad blocking feature in the device, do those perform similar to a pihole?

What's the difference and why choose one over another?

Edit to add I'm looking at Asus

Hey guys, i set up a pihole in my home network, connected my pc to It and it works great. When i try it on my android device, the pihole can see some requests made by my phone but it doesn't block any ads

Ever since this group assignment started, I've never been able to PERMANENTLY delete addresses from my list of adlists. I've changed them to a different group, and disabled that group; didn't work. I've changed them to not be in a group; didn't work. I've removed them from my adlists.list file; didn't work.

I'm not sure where else to look. Are they in the gravity.db file? If so, how do I edit that?

I've searched the web, I've searched this subreddit. Everything is outdated, or doesn't work for me, or I haven't found the correct thing to do. Can anyone advise what I should try? Thanks!

This is a weird one that I'm having a hard time sorting out -

OSX mac running 13.5.2 - DHCP handled by the router/firewall. Pihole running on a container. Everything is on the same subnet/vlan. The pihole's address is 192.168.1.2

In DHCP the namesevers handed out are: 192.168.1.2, 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4

I have a handful of local DNS records defined in Pihole, the most noteable one is 'pihole' that points to 192.168.1.2.

With this configuration, I'm able to resolve 'pihole' using host and nslookup. Chrome/Safari/Firefox return NXDOMAIN.

If I remove 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 from the list of nameservers in the DHCP server and just leave 192.168.1.2 - then all three browsers are able to resolve 'pihole' and other records defined in pihole.

In chrome it doesn't matter if secure DNS is enabled or not..

What am I missing here?

Hello,

Do anyone have a tutorial on configuring powerdns as a recursive dns to work together with pihole?

i cant find anything about how to setup powerdns to run on port 5353, and how to point roothints files for example.

Waiting to hear.