The Internet is full of unsavoury content: advertisers wanting to sell you stuff you don’t need, trackers extracting and selling your data as if it were oil, and malicious content vying to hijack your favourite device. This collection hopes to help you minimise these issues, and to maintain a more enjoyable online presence, using the wonderful, free and open source utility known as Pi-hole.

On arrival, like a growing number of websites, Forbes asked readers to turn off ad blockers in order to view the article. After doing so, visitors were immediately served with pop-under malware, primed to infect their computers, and likely silently steal passwords, personal data and banking information. Or, as is popular worldwide with these malware “exploit kits,” lock up their hard drives in exchange for Bitcoin ransom.
‘Forbes Site, After Begging You To Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up A Steaming Pile Of Malware ‘Ads” – Techdirt, 2016

The following links will expose the current blocklist URL’s in different ways, so that you can add The Firebog’s blocklists to your Pi-hole. Please be aware that entries in these lists will take on the same order as the front page (I.E: not appended to the end), as they are automatically scraped from the front page’s HTML source.