The issue I am facing:
updated both my pi holes today and now phone not having ads blocked. no other settings changed. blocked still on computers.
Details about my system:
2 ubuntu boxes running 22.04. each running a pihole, both updated today.
keepalived running for failover, which works well.
Gravity sync between piholes and works.
orbi router set to my virtual IP failover.
pixel 7 settings unchanged - DNS on phone points to router.and router points to pihole
I turned off private DNS - has been off for a long time
This is my first update w- gravity-sync installed.. do I need to do something special when updating?
What I have changed since installing Pi-hole:
added cloudflared doh
gravity-sync
keepalived failover w- postfix notices
update - I think it was the gravity sync. The pihole says 0 blockers on adlist for both even though I have an ad list loaded...
I purged gravity-sync on both and I need to somehow get both piholes to see the adlists again....
Ugh.
I figured it out.
The blocklist I used disappeared. It was that https://dbl.oisd.nl
when I upgraded pihole on both it updated the block lists to 0. not sure why it was still blocking on my computer and not my phone.
Anyone have a good blocklist? I liked the dbl.oisd.nl one because it blocked pretty much everything without blocking things I wanted. It was a pretty perfect list.
Supposedly he transitioned to big.oisd.nl but I tried plugging that into an adlist but it wouldn't download a gravity list... ANd he seems to have removed pihole instructions from his website.
I would disagree with that assessment for a few reasons.
The list was an aggregate of other lists, all of which you can use directly. This also allows assignment of individual lists to different management groups.
The list maintainer deliberately whitelisted known ad-serving domains (e.g. ads.google.com). Do you really want somebody deciding for you what should be whitelisted?
There is no single "good blocklist", but the default we offer on install will block pretty much all the ads that a domain blocker can block.
A good selection of reputable lists is here. You can copy and post a whole selection (i.e. all the ticked lists) to your adlists in one swoop, update gravity and you have them all.
It's back again at the original url, though who knows for how long. The maintainer pulled it without warning and later posted stats showing ~98% of downloads are the abp version, apparently not appreciating that 100% of downloads from the subset of Pi-hole users are the domains version. Hopefully it stays this time, but use with additional caution.