Can't open blacklist

[samuelrhaynes]

Hey mate, loving the script, however I think it's so large it causes the pihole admin to freeze if I try and load the blacklist

Anyone else have this issue? Any work arounds?

[SamboMambo]

I have this issue, i couldn't tell why it was freezing then i realized it's updating the list every hour

[DemonRok]

Hi @samuelrhaynes and @SamboMambo!

Freezeing is normal, blacklist contains more than 22,000 lines 💃 Instead of using the youtube.sh script and running the blacklist every hour, I found much more convenient to insert the raw link of the file youtubelist.txt directly in the "Blocklists used to generate Pi-hole's Gravity" settings.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole/master/youtubelist.txt

I have also modified crontab to perform Pi-hole's Gravity generation once a day as follows: login as root or use sudo

sudo cd /etc/cron.d
sudo vi pihole

and modify the line

35 4   * * *   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updateGravity >/var/log/pihole_updateGravity.log || cat /var/log/pihole_updateGravity.log

so, every day at 4:35 (when I'm normally sleeping) crontab updates gravity. In this way the blacklist wasn't touched.

As described in README.md more information about crontab are there: https://crontab.guru/

ATTENTION: the modification of the file /etc/cron.d/pi-hole described above is to be carried out after each pi-hole release update

[kboghdady]

you can add this link https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole/master/youtubelist.txt

into this file /etc/pihole/adlists.list

and definitely make the pihole update using the crontab script that @denizdogan mention

[kboghdady]

it is very challenging to make a long list of all the youtube list into a file. especially if you want to edit the blacklist via the pihole GUI