Blocklists blocking themselves from downloading after installing unbound (pihole -g)

I have installed recursive resolver on PiHole following this guide: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/

Everything works fine so far, however since I started using unbound, some of the blocklists in gravity seem to block themselves from downloading.

Expected Behaviour:

All blocklists show status downloaded or no change detected.

Actual Behaviour:

Some blocklists show as blocked by unbound and then retrieval successful. I am especially confused about the following:

  [i] Target: v.firebog.net (lists.php?type=nocross)
  [✗] Status: v.firebog.net is blocked by https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php?type=nocross. Using DNS on 127.0.0.1#5353 to download https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php?type=nocross
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

It tells me the blocklist I try to download is blocking itself? And then Retrieval successful in the next line, so I am very confused whether the blocklist has actually been downloaded or not.

Here's the full output of my gravity update. As you can see, several other entries show the same behavior e.g. blocked by https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php?type=nocross. Using DNS on 127.0.0.1#5353 to download http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts :

pihole -g
  [i] Pi-hole blocking is enabled
  [i] Neutrino emissions detected...
  [✓] Pulling blocklist source list into range

  [i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (hosts)
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

  [i] Target: mirror1.malwaredomains.com (justdomains)
  [✗] Status: mirror1.malwaredomains.com is blocked by https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php?type=nocross. Using DNS on 127.0.0.1#5353 to download https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains
  [✓] Status: No changes detected

  [i] Target: sysctl.org (hosts)
  [✗] Status: sysctl.org is blocked by https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php?type=nocross. Using DNS on 127.0.0.1#5353 to download http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts
  [✓] Status: No changes detected

  [i] Target: zeustracker.abuse.ch (blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist)
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

  [i] Target: s3.amazonaws.com (simple_tracking.txt)
  [✓] Status: No changes detected

  [i] Target: s3.amazonaws.com (simple_ad.txt)
  [✓] Status: No changes detected

  [i] Target: hosts-file.net (ad_servers.txt)
  [✗] Status: hosts-file.net is blocked by https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php?type=nocross. Using DNS on 127.0.0.1#5353 to download https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
  [✓] Status: No changes detected

  [i] Target: justdomains.github.io (easylist-justdomains.txt)
  [✓] Status: No changes detected

  [i] Target: justdomains.github.io (adguarddns-justdomains.txt)
  [✗] Status: Connection Refused
  [✗] List download failed: using previously cached list

  [i] Target: justdomains.github.io (nocoin-justdomains.txt)
  [✓] Status: No changes detected

  [i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (hosts.txt)
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

  [i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (mobile.txt)
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

  [i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (nomsdata.txt)
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

  [i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (jbfake.txt)
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

  [i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (gamefake.txt)
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

  [i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (fakenewsde.txt)
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

  [i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (cryptomine.txt)
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

  [i] Target: v.firebog.net (lists.php?type=nocross)
  [✗] Status: v.firebog.net is blocked by https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php?type=nocross. Using DNS on 127.0.0.1#5353 to download https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php?type=nocross
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful
  [✓] Format: URL

Should I simply whitelist the following domains to get it working as expected?

Debug Token:

That's not a list. That's a page with lists on it, you'll need to pick what lists you want from that URL.

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