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Edit: I see I worded the title wrong. I should have said DNS queries, not traffic.

So, ever since my 7 year old said the boys in his class were trying to find the meaning of f**k by searching online, I got worried and set up pihole. That was over 3 years ago. I built my ad list so that it doesn’t block anything we use, like Facebook.

I used to look at blocking stats a lot in the first few weeks after installing pihole, but haven’t looked at them in over a year now. Today I was cleaning up my server and saw that pihole is blocking 66% of my traffic. WOW. Most of it is just tracking (damn microsoft) and ads.

Here I share my adlist for others to use. Copy the text into a text file, rename the file to adlist.json and import it into your pihole.

If you have a better or specific list or tips, please share them. Fellow redditors will benefit from them and I thank you.

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