They interrupt routines
Autoplay, popups, and “one more click” designs can turn a quick task into a distraction spiral.
A family-first ad filter list
Ads don’t just sell products — they sell attention.
Many ads are engineered to be distracting, persuasive, and difficult to ignore. For families, that can mean more screen-time pressure, more impulse spending, and less calm.
This site provides a simple hosts-style domain blocklist you can use with common network-level tools.
Why ads are especially rough on families
Ads aren’t neutral. They’re optimized to win attention — even when it harms the experience.
They exploit impulse
Targeting and urgency tricks are built to bypass patience — difficult for kids, stressful for parents.
They encourage tracking
Many ad ecosystems depend on following activity across apps and sites. That’s a privacy cost families shouldn’t have to pay.
A simple solution: block ad domains
FamilyAds Ignorelist publishes a hosts-style list of ad and ad-adjacent domains you can add to common tools (like Pi-hole or AdGuard Home).
- Works at the network level, across many devices
- Reduces ad noise without installing extensions everywhere
- Keeps the list in one place, easy to update
What this is (and isn’t)
This is a domain blocklist. It can reduce ads and tracking, but it won’t catch everything, and it may occasionally block something you want.
Tip: start on a guest network or a single device, then roll out family-wide once you’re happy.
Read the disclaimerReady to make the web calmer?
Grab the list, add it to your blocker, and keep family devices quieter.