This project would not be possible without the contributions and efforts of the following individuals and communities. We acknowledge their work in creating, maintaining, and curating blocklists, scripts, and tools that make Pi-hole blocklist management effective.
- Pi-hole Developers and Community – For developing and maintaining Pi-hole, the ad-blocking DNS server that powers this project.
- Official website: https://pi-hole.net
- Documentation: https://docs.pi-hole.net
- Public contributors maintaining blocklists for ads, trackers, malware, and social media:
- StevenBlack – Unified hosts file to block ads and trackers.
- Various GitHub contributors who maintain specialized blocklists for social media and video platforms.
- MalwareDomainList – Domains associated with malware and phishing.
- SQLite – For inspecting and managing Pi-hole's gravity database.
- Docker – For containerized deployment of Pi-hole.
- GitHub – Hosting, versioning, and distributing blocklist files.
- curl / wget – Downloading raw blocklist files.
- Contributors who create and maintain raw blocklists on GitHub and other platforms.
- Pi-hole community members for troubleshooting guidance and best practices.
- Users who verified and tested these blocklists in multiple scenarios (host, Docker, etc.).
- This project merges, splits, and curates publicly available blocklists for easy use with Pi-hole.
- All blocklists used are credited to their original maintainers.
- Users should respect the licensing terms of original blocklists when using or redistributing.