Add easylist.to to pihole

JohnSnow · December 29, 2018, 2:26am

ive been using the default blocklist, but finding ads are getting threw.

i also use ublock origin and enabled the easylist and it blocked all unwanted ads. How can i script pihole to also filter and block using easylist?

looks to be similar to adblockplus

https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt

jfb · December 29, 2018, 3:08am

This is not in HOSTS format and most would not import into Pi -Hole.

frankrpi3 · December 29, 2018, 8:47am

You can get a (reduced) easylist in host format here:

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt

It is reduced to the pure domains to work with Pi-Hole. If you are using Ublock, use it. It is a good working combination.

JohnSnow · December 29, 2018, 7:39pm

it works for the most part, but a few ads still slip in. I loaded this list in ublock and disabled the main easy list, it indeed is better but not as good as the full easylist.

I noted 18000 entries in firebog vs 86000 in the full easylist.

JohnSnow · December 29, 2018, 7:40pm

i suspected as much, but no script to clean it up to be in HOST format?

jfb · December 29, 2018, 8:03pm

There is some parsing in the gravity script when blocklists are fetched from the internet, but the list you reference was built for a different purpose and use by an ad-blocker using different technology. As a previous commenter noted, running uBlock on your browsers in addition to a Pi-Hole on the network typically catches pretty much all the advertisements.

For reference, here is the parsing code in the gravity shell.

github.com

pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/gravity.sh#L349


      
          if timeout 4 dig +short "${lookupDomain}" &> /dev/null; then
            if [[ -n "${secs:-}" ]]; then
              echo -e "${OVER}  ${TICK} DNS resolution is now available\\n"
            fi
            return 0
          elif [[ -n "${secs:-}" ]]; then
            echo -e "${OVER}  ${CROSS} DNS resolution is not available"
            exit 1
          fi
          
          # Determine error output message
          if pgrep pihole-FTL &> /dev/null; then
            echo -e "  ${CROSS} DNS resolution is currently unavailable"
          else
            echo -e "  ${CROSS} DNS service is not running"
            "${PIHOLE_COMMAND}" restartdns
          fi
          
          # Ensure DNS server is given time to be resolvable
          secs="120"
          echo -ne "  ${INFO} Time until retry: ${secs}"

JohnSnow · December 30, 2018, 7:03am

Yes combination of pihole and ublock on Windows has worked well for Chrome or Firefox. However the main reason I setup pihole was to block ads on smart devices such as phones or Smart TVs that do not allow third party addons like ublock. This is why I mainly wanted to figure out a way to parse the easylist that is used by ublock. Most ads are blocked, what i tend to see is random redirects opening a new tab on my phone saying i'm a millionaire or where can i buy used cars.

This list seems to be very similar to the one used by adblock plus.

jfb · December 30, 2018, 7:55am

You may have better success blacklisting these domains locally than parsing the uBlock list. Your query log will help determine where the ads are coming from.

system · January 20, 2019, 7:55am

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