The current implementation for wildcard blacklisting doesn't really use wildcards. All it really is, is blocking of domains and all subdomains. The announcement mentions youtube ad blocking, sadly the implementation doesn't allow for youtube ad blocking without blocking non-ad subdomains as well. M…

See [image] Blocking via regex now available in FTLDNS Announcements Originally published at: https://pi-hole.net/2018/04/24/blocking-via-regex-now-available-in-ftldns/ We have implemented GNU Extended Regular Expressions for blocking domains into FTLDNS (…

As far as I know dnsmasq doesn't support this kind of entries

As @Anudeep mentioned, dnsmasq does not support true wildcards. It can only do the subdomain wildcards.

@Anudeep and @Mcat12 are correct. It's not so much a limitation of Pi-hole, but rather dnsmasq, which is what Pi-hole uses.

Proper wildcard blacklisting

Feature Requests Implemented

DL6ER April 24, 2018, 5:30pm 7

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