FRITZ!OS 8.40 beta offers DNS filtering

General
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FRITZ!OS 8.40 beta offers DNS filtering of public adlists and domains can be included or excluded from filtering.

New functions of FRITZ!OS 8.40-134416

Internet:

NEW  DNS queries from the home and guest network can be filtered using specified filter lists

This behaviour is clearly copying pi-hole's core function.

I guess it's helpful for those without a machine or device running Linux.

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Stuff from Ubiquiti UniFi has it too on their Router models and you can use Unbound in OPNsense for the same purpose just like pfBlockerNG in pfSense... but...

Why would you when there is Pi-Hole ?! :winking_face_with_tongue:

#AliveWithoutPi-HoleIsNotWorthLiving :smiling_face_with_sunglasses::grimacing::+1::+1:

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Funny to see that Fritz has finally startet a development as the request is already a few years old.

But i don't care. The possibilities by Pihole are much more in comparision to the Fritzbox.

But I see another need for future AdBlockers. The increasingly upcoming scripted ads are a real problem as many magazins has started the fight against AdBlockers with the advantage of being ahead of DNS blocking.

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At least for the German models, FritzOS has supported filtering of domains ever since 84.05.05 released in 2011.

Back then, it was advertised as 'Kindersicherung'.

Current FritzOS releases list it as 'Internetseiten filtern' in a profile's filter section.

However, it has been limited to a single manual list capped at 500 entries, and enabling/disabling a fixed blocklist subscription (BPjM) for content inappropiate for young ones. I remember it to have been quite buggy at first, e.g. filtering only A records (IPv4) and HTTP requests.

It would seem that 8.40 now extends that capability by allowing subscriptions to arbitrary blocklists. I'd still expect entries to be capped, according to a specific Fritzbox model's memory restrictions.

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It's not really a competition. The goal is to allow users to control their own data and their own networks. How they do that is up to them, more options are better.

I've said many times before, we don't have any reason to 'sell' you on Pi-hole, but that's not true of almost all of the other options.

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All that still exists, but the DNS filter is a new feature.

DNS filter
DNS filter1293Ă—906 35.3 KB

Note that the whole page was translated to English (from mostly German)!

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Wer ne Fritzbox hat, spricht normalerweise die deutsche Sprache.
Alle Kommentartoren hier in diesem Beitrag sind der deutschen Sprache mächtig oder haben auffällig gute Translators.

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AVM products are being sold in other countries too! :wink:

Some ISPs use them too just like the ISPs in Germany do.

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You are right but the main market for Fritz products is by far the German market.

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Dunno man...

Haven't seen the "AVM Sales Report" at least once to be able to say anything about that :rofl:

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It's not a matter of about just a Sales Report. It's more a matter of GFK or IDC report of market size, market reach, sales to consumers and captive bundles of ISPs.

IDC: AVM handles up to 60% of CPE deployments in Germany and roughly 18% of total European carrier broadband entry points.

Believe it or not.

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I cannot believe this thread has degenerated into a debate about international sale numbers of FRITZ! products!

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I think he missed my joke... happens... :grimacing:

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Then - please - let us know about your first findings of the new adblocker in FW 8.40?
Anything you can contribute ?

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I'm not using it, as I use pi-hole instead. I was just informing everybody about the change.

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I appreciate that as I wasn't aware of.
Thank you.