The good news is these are easily blocked by default lists of extensions like uBlock origin which you might be already using for cosmetic-filtering. Popular blocklists like also unblocks these sites to preserve functionality. This might be unpleasant for someone using your DNS server. For ex: Images in emails might be missing, Subscribe/Unsubscribe buttons might be non-functional. You can find a relevant discussion here.īlocking some of the domains at DNS level might take away some of the felexibilty from the client. Some games and apps require unblocking telemetry to prevent crashing. Similarly is the home page for Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords). Now, to address the core of your question, as to why aren't they blocked in the first place.īecause doing so may break core functions of a website/app.įor instance, google owned domains like ad., and its variants are used for Google Shopping. They're explicity unblocked because the regex rules that are in the list would otherwise block them. Most, if not all, are taken from NextDNS Allow Affiliate & Tracking Links list Excluding domains which are obviously indulging in advertising/tracking does raise a few red flags.įirst let me tell you where I've taken them from: Thank you for asking a very important question. The old lists won't get future updates and will be removed in a week. The 'General' list and 'Addon - Regional' list have been merged into ' The Main List'. * The regex rules are also matched against whitelisted domains to ensure that no 'good' domain is blocked. You can report any issues here or preferably in the repo. Kindly use this list in your AdGuardHome implementation and tell me your experience. The repo is hosted at Github and contains the generator script and along with the generated lists.Īs of now, there are 3 addon lists with the main list (named the 'general' list): Guaranteed to be lighter than other compiled lists using the same sources.ĬNAMEs of whitelisted domains are also whitelisted to prevent inadvertent blocking.Ĭontains regex rules to capture malicious domains not covered by source lists.*Īll this is made possible through the good work done by the creators/maintainers of the source lists and by the python script used to generate aBL. There are several features which makes it different from other compiled lists: ABL is a filter list optimized for DNS level blocking of ads, analytics, crypto-jacking and other such threats/nuisances.
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