So once you add them to pihole you need to refesh the devices you are testing with. You shouldnt need wildcard block because you are only concerned with blocking the specific domains on the list and not any parent domains.
You also need to update gravity on pihole inorder for it to use the domains on the list.
hmm.. I ended up just copying and pasting all the domains as single into pihole and that seems be be blocking them, but because it's not a link, it won't be updated.. I didn't realize I had to update gravity for it to take effect... how can I delete all those individual domains a faster way than one by one?
You should consider just using CleanBrowsing DNS to enforce safesearch since you seem (to me) to be in over your head at this point in time with dnsmasq, Pi-Hole, DoH, etc. Spend some time learning how to customize Pi-Hole and asking questions at the PiHole forums. If you want to go back to a router-based dnsmasq solution (e.g. using Diversion instead of PiHole), come back and ask those questions.
I concur, all you are doing swimming in circles if you dont already have some sort of general knowledge of what you are doing because this is just taking the forum way out of the scope of what would help general users. If the issue is occuring with pihole, then talk with pihole devs. If it is an issue with the router, then ask for support from here. But first sit down and read more about what you are using before you dive heads first in the water.You should consider just using CleanBrowsing DNS to enforce safesearch since you seem (to me) to be in over your head at this point in time with dnsmasq, Pi-Hole, DoH, etc. Spend some time learning how to customize Pi-Hole and asking questions at the PiHole forums. If you want to go back to a router-based dnsmasq solution (e.g. using Diversion instead of PiHole), come back and ask those questions.
I'm not saying you should give up and abandon this thread, but I don't think your setup is in a good state at the moment since you seem to be trying random things. You'll get better PiHole support at their forums, and better ASUS/Merlin/Diversion support here. But if you implement something you don't fully understand, you'll panic the first time it breaks and you won't know why. Been there, done that.
Here it looks like you added the list link as a domain and not to the adlist section.
Yes, I understood the link was supposed to be added to the blocked list (blacklisted domains). Now that I added it to the correct place (adlists section) it works. SafeSearch is being enforced even with FireFox's DNS over HTTPS enabled..which is what I wanted all along.
The link to the list your provided has been working great!!!
Awesome…will def look into it…thanks
I tried that last adlist and unfortunately it would not block a vpns from the app store. I can still connect to their available VPNs
It has some vpn provider addressing in it as well. And some proxy services as well.
The problem with some of the vpn app is that the vpn apps may be using an actual ip address to connect as opposed to a domain address. In this case you need to set up an ip block for known vpn ip addresses using something like Skynet.
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