Commonly white listed domains for Pi-Hole (Compatible with Pi-Hole Docker Image).
A robust collection of commonly white listed websites borrowed from various sources including Pi-Hole subreddit, Pi-Hole forum, Pi-Hole github repository and more! Add these domains to your Pi-Hole setup by running a script or manually and make your setup trouble-free!
Want to report a new domain? Want to report exsisting one? Feel free to file an issue.
Main features:
- The entire repo is curated.
- New domains are added frequently.
- Supports Pi-Hole Docker installation.
- Comes with a shell script i.e you can add all domains automatically at an instant.
- Domains are categorised and are included in 3 different files.
- If you are a beginner to Pi-Hole, adding these sites resolves many problems.
Description
| File Name | Domain Count | Description | Update Frequency | Raw Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| whitelist.txt | 194 | This file contain domains that are safe to whitelist i.e it does not contain any tracking or advertising sites. Adding this file fixes many problems like YouTube watch history, videos on news sites and so on. If you want to report additional domain feel free to file an issue. | Occasionally | link |
| referral-sites.txt | 72 | People who use services like Slickdeals and Fatwallet needs a few sites (most of them are either trackers or ads) to be whitelisted to work properly. This file contains some analytics and ad serving sites like doubleclick.net and others. If you don't know what these services are, stay away from this list. | Occasionally | link |
| optional-list.txt | -- | This file contain domains that are needed to be whitelisted depending on the service you use. It may contain some tracking site but sometimes it's necessary to add bad domains to make a few services to work. Currently there is no script for this list, you have to add domains manually to your Pi-Hole. | Occasionally | link |
Installation and Usage
For Docker installation
Access you running Pi-Hole container by docker exec -it <container-ID> bash and proceed with the steps given below:
git clone https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist.git
cd whitelist/scripts
./whitelist.sh
If you keep the /etc/pihole on a volume outside the container you can set the PIHOLE_LOCATION and GRAVITY_UPDATE_COMMAND environment variables based on your setup which the scripts will honor.
For example, if your volume is at /docker/pihole/etc/ and your container is named mycontainer:
PIHOLE_LOCATION=/docker/pihole/etc GRAVITY_UPDATE_COMMAND='docker exec -it mycontainer pihole -w -q' scripts/whitelist.sh
For whitelist.txt
git clone https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist.git
cd whitelist/scripts
sudo ./whitelist.sh
For referral-sites.txt
git clone https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist.git
cd whitelist/scripts
sudo ./referral.sh
Note: You don't have to clone the repo every time you need to update whitelist file. Navigate to whitelist/scripts and run it again sudo ./whitelist.sh
For optional-list.txt
You can add it manually depending upon the service you use.
For Automated Update
cd /opt/
sudo git clone https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist.git
Make the script to run the script at 1AM on the last day of the week
sudo nano /etc/crontab
Add this line at the end of the file:
0 1 * * */7 root /opt/whitelist/scripts/whitelist.sh
CTRL + X then Y and Enter
sudo whitelist/scripts/whitelist.sh
How do I determine an ad domain?
Adam:ONE Assistant (Previously known as DNSthingy
This browser extension will list all of the domains that are queried when a web page is loaded. You can often look at the list of domains and cherry pick the ones that appear to be ad-serving domains.
Using inbuilt Developer tool
For Chrome ctrl+shift+I will land you in Developer tools menu.
Using an Android app
Net Guard is an Android app that can be used to monitor any specific apps, works on unrooted devices too.
Donation
All donations are welcome and any amount of money will help me to maintain this project :)
Licence
MIT License
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