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I run my own general blocklist. You can find and use it from here:
It is loaded with individual subdomains of URLs serving ads, used for user tracking, click-tracking, behavioral metrics/siphoning, user analytics, email tracking, etc. It is generally an all-purpose list for blocking some of the grimeyness that comes with the modern web.
Because digital advertising and marketing is a plague upon the internet and turns human beings into datamines. I want to protect myself and everyone else. As long as surveillance capitalism runs rampant, there will be a need to take matters into our own hands.
I was also finding that a lot of popular blocklists were missing/outdated in terms of the domains they held. This, along with constant rebrands of known data tracking domains, had me wanting to build my own list to use on multiple networks, network-wide with things like pi-hole.
I have an (old) blog post that goes into some of those details here:
https://rooneymcnibnug.github.io/privacy/2019/05/15/rooney-pihole.html
The gist is I find these domains for my blocklis via:
- Reading news articles
- Social media
- Looking at things UBlock Origin is not blocking
- Running things like tshark against DNS ports
- Word-of-mouth
- Ads (even awful billboards I see in random places lol)
When I see a sketchy domain, I see if it has been added to one of the blocklists I am using already. If not, I enumerate it with tools like findomain or sublist3r and add the subdomains that look relevant to the SNAFU list.
Here is another blog post of mine where I found a whole entire dumspter fire of these and how I added them to my blocklist:
https://rooneymcnibnug.github.io/privacy/2022/08/19/tracker-domain-enum-FF-N-NP-pt2.html
I pride myself in keeping my list usable in the sense that it is non-breaking as priority. I dogfood this list (I use it myself on many devices/networks) so when I notice something isn't working on a site it is one of the first things I check. I also try to be very quick in responding to site breakage issues on that github repo where my SNAFU list lives. I care very much about this project, so I try and tend to it frequently.
Yes! You can fork the repo, do a PR, add an issue, just lift all these domains and add them to your own blocklist you are working on, send me a message on Mastodon (see my index) or whatever - I just want people to find this list useful and block this type of tracking and advertising as much as possible.