Make Pi-Hole first time setup more appealing for the masses

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@rso42

Fun fact: I wasn’t able to pay with paypal for my Pi-Hole patreon account until I found out that js.braintreegateway.com was part of a blocklist. Why hurt yourself this way?

This was something you did. Searching the default 7 block lists, this domain is not blocked. It appears to have been included in a block list that you loaded after installation.

If more block lists are added at installation, then more sites are blocked, and user experience suffers. If whitelists are then added, there could be unintended effects.

A recent change in Pi-Hole (V4 I think) was that whitelists for blocklists-serving domains were removed from the software; for that reason.

Confusion on whitelist ad list domains

We have made some changes to the code in the next release. Where we previously would whitelist the domain of an blocklist so that you would always have access to download that blocklist even if another blocklist would prevent that action, we will no longer be automatically adding domains to the whitelist. What this means: With the current behavior if you add a blocklist from my.reallycool.domain, we previously would add reallycool.domain to the whitelist. That would prevent my.reallybad.domain …