diff --git a/doc/help/settings.asciidoc b/doc/help/settings.asciidoc
index 796199a19..499c9c88b 100644
--- a/doc/help/settings.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/help/settings.asciidoc
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@
 |<<content-cookies-store,cookies-store>>|Whether to store cookies.
 |<<content-host-block-lists,host-block-lists>>|List of URLs of lists which contain hosts to block.
 |<<content-host-blocking-enabled,host-blocking-enabled>>|Whether host blocking is enabled.
+|<<content-host-blocking-whitelist,host-blocking-whitelist>>|List of domains that should always be loaded, despite being ad-blocked.
 |==============
 
 .Quick reference for section ``hints''
@@ -1433,6 +1434,16 @@ Valid values:
 
 Default: +pass:[true]+
 
+[[content-host-blocking-whitelist]]
+=== host-blocking-whitelist
+List of domains that should always be loaded, despite being ad-blocked.
+
+Domains may contain * and ? wildcards and are otherwise required to exactly match the requested domain.
+
+Local domains are always exempt from hostblocking.
+
+Default: empty
+
 == hints
 Hinting settings.
 
diff --git a/qutebrowser/browser/network/networkmanager.py b/qutebrowser/browser/network/networkmanager.py
index e433b5e66..c2eee80e9 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/browser/network/networkmanager.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/browser/network/networkmanager.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 """Our own QNetworkAccessManager."""
 
 import collections
+import fnmatch
 
 from PyQt5.QtCore import (pyqtSlot, pyqtSignal, PYQT_VERSION, QCoreApplication,
                           QUrl, QByteArray)
@@ -49,6 +50,22 @@ def init():
         QSslSocket.setDefaultCiphers(good_ciphers)
 
 
+def is_whitelisted_domain(host):
+    """Check if the given host is on the adblock whitelist.
+
+    Args:
+        host: The host of the request as string.
+    """
+    whitelist = config.get('content', 'host-blocking-whitelist')
+    if whitelist is None:
+        return False
+
+    for pattern in whitelist:
+        if fnmatch.fnmatch(host, pattern.lower()):
+            return True
+    return False
+
+
 class SslError(QSslError):
 
     """A QSslError subclass which provides __hash__ on Qt < 5.4."""
@@ -347,7 +364,8 @@ class NetworkManager(QNetworkAccessManager):
         host_blocker = objreg.get('host-blocker')
         if (op == QNetworkAccessManager.GetOperation and
                 req.url().host() in host_blocker.blocked_hosts and
-                config.get('content', 'host-blocking-enabled')):
+                config.get('content', 'host-blocking-enabled') and
+                not is_whitelisted_domain(req.url().host())):
             log.webview.info("Request to {} blocked by host blocker.".format(
                 req.url().host()))
             return networkreply.ErrorNetworkReply(
diff --git a/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py b/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py
index c9d82838d..cbede4a00 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/config/configdata.py
@@ -735,6 +735,14 @@ def data(readonly=False):
              SettingValue(typ.Bool(), 'true'),
              "Whether host blocking is enabled."),
 
+            ('host-blocking-whitelist',
+             SettingValue(typ.List(none_ok=True), ''),
+             "List of domains that should always be loaded, despite being "
+             "ad-blocked.\n\n"
+             "Domains may contain * and ? wildcards and are otherwise "
+             "required to exactly match the requested domain.\n\n"
+             "Local domains are always exempt from hostblocking."),
+
             readonly=readonly
         )),