From 81bf573d667eabf293047de737ce0fab577dd281 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Warner Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 19:56:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Guide to editing source blocklists. First draft. --- Customising-ad-list-sources.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Customising-ad-list-sources.md diff --git a/Customising-ad-list-sources.md b/Customising-ad-list-sources.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..049b03f --- /dev/null +++ b/Customising-ad-list-sources.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +By default, when `gravity.sh` pulls in lists of domains to block we combine several lists, which are listed in `/etc/pihole/adlists.default`: +``` +https://adaway.org/hosts.txt +http://adblock.gjtech.net/?format=unix-hosts +http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt +http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt +http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php? +http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts +http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt +http://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains +``` + +There are many block-lists available on the internet, and we have not tried and tested them all, but we have found the above listed to be reliable. + +If you wish to remove any of these lists, or add your own on top, then make a copy of `adlists.default` and call it `adlists.list`. This will tell `gravity.sh` to read from `adlists.list` instead of the default list. + +To do this, use the following commands: + +`cp /etc/pihole/adlists.default /etc/pihole/adlists.default` (to make a copy) + +`nano /etc/pihole/adlists.list` (to make changes to `adlists.list`) \ No newline at end of file