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Expected Behaviour:
I am trying to block all social media.
Actual Behaviour:
I don't know how to do it - I am just using one regex which I have found via duckduckgo on github:
^(.+.)?(facebook|fb(cdn|sbx)?|tfbnw).[^.]+$
Dear all,
first of all thanks for creating Pi-hole
Unfortunately I am really new to Pi-hole and the whole regex blocking is new to me. I just added the above mentioned regex to Pi-hole, so that facebook gets blocked. However, instagram, snapchat, ... are still working on many sites.
Shall I create another regex for instagram, snapchat? Or shall I search the web for another blocklist?
If I am going to choose regex, what would it look like? Shall I just replace facebokk with instagram / snapchat?
You can look on the web for blocklists, but your results may be not what you expect. Certainly worth a look though.
If you know the social media sites you want to block, then add a wildcard block for each of the main domain words as a start, then see what leaks through and block them as well.
For example, add facebook.com to the blacklist and "add (wildcard)" and this will be converted by Pi-hole to a regex. Facebook.com and all domains are blocked. Do the same for instagram, snapface, chatbook, etc....
(You can tell I don't use any of these sites, since I butcher the names)
Thank you for your quick response! I am glad that I am not the only one which is not using the sites I've just added instagram.com as suggested via add wildcard and it's working like a charm so far! Going to do the same with the other "social" sites (Oh boy I miss the good ol' days when IRC used to be "the" social network ^_^)
I've just added instagram.com as suggested via add wildcard and it's working like a charm so far! Going to do the same with the other "social" sites