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https://github.com/smed79/blacklist

BlackList of domains known to host advertisements, tracking, mining and other nasty purposes
https://github.com/smed79/blacklist

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BlackList of domains known to host advertisements, tracking, mining and other nasty purposes

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### BlackList

A blacklist of bad domains in **DNS hosts** format and **Adblock Plus** syntax.

#### Purpose

Blocking bad domains used for serving advertisements, tracking, mining, and other nasty content.

#### What is a host file?

The hosts file, is a plain-text file used by all operating systems to map hostnames to IP addresses. Host file preferred over DNS so if a domain name is resolved by the hosts file, the request never leaves your computer.

#### Location of your hosts file

* Linux / Mac OS X, iOS, Android: `/etc/hosts`
* Winodws XP, 7, 8.0, 8.1, 10: `C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts`
* Windows 2000: `C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts`

#### What is an adblock?

Ad blocking is a software designed to prevent advertisements from appearing on a web page or an application.

#### Wikis

* ![Blacklist-computing](https://i.imgur.com/rUyzSai.png) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(computing)
* ![Hosts-file](https://i.imgur.com/rUyzSai.png) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)
* ![Adblock-Plus-filters](https://i.imgur.com/kPRCfhu.png) https://adblockplus.org/filters

#### Raw links

* ![HOSTS-file](https://i.imgur.com/Jcq8tsA.png) HOSTS file : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smed79/blacklist/master/hosts.txt
* ![Adblock-Plus-filter-list](https://i.imgur.com/Jcq8tsA.png) Adblock Plus filter list : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smed79/blacklist/master/abp.txt | [Subscribe](https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smed79/blacklist/master/abp.txt&title=smed79%20BlackList)

#### Related awesome projects

* ![Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist](https://i.imgur.com/Jcq8tsA.png) https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist
* ![Badd-Boyz-Hosts](https://i.imgur.com/Jcq8tsA.png) https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Badd-Boyz-Hosts
* ![StevenBlack-hosts](https://i.imgur.com/Jcq8tsA.png) https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
* ![EasyList](https://i.imgur.com/Jcq8tsA.png) https://github.com/easylist/easylist

#### Useful tools

* ![PyFunceble](https://i.imgur.com/6VjZpm1.png) https://github.com/funilrys/PyFunceble (_powerful script to check the availability or syntax of domains_)

#### Support this Project

Star ★ this repo, and we're square :nerd_face:

#### License

* http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/