Strugeling activate ad blacklist

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Hello everyone,

I’m having a hard time creating an adblock filter list.

Why? Because I don’t have a clean adblocker on all the devices in my house.

I would like to use the URL blacklist for this, because I think that’s what it’s meant for.

The following configuration is active.

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On top only the “Catagory ads” is marked.

i also trye to import the list by using the blacklist editor.

seams to download the list corrrectly.. after that i had a lot more catagorys to optional mark.

what in hell i’m doing wrong? What i’m missing??!!

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Howdy Gerd,

The URL blacklist isn’t the most user friendly tool but could you take a screen capture of your Web proxy configuration. You can find it in the Network menu. I would uncheck “Transparent on Green”

Another place to see is the Logs menu. Could you look in the URL filter logs, do you see any activity? If you see any, you can post it as well.

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Hi Pepe

Thank you for taking care of me.

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Here the Screenshot from the webprox dialog.

I did not change anything exapt of activating the prox. After that i tryed to reconnect the clients that conneted and used the DHCP so i make sure that all the clients gets the “use the proxy” informations by the DHCP.

Addendum. After writing that, I checked to see if I really had the proxy enabled on the client.

MacBookPro:~ gerd$ networksetup -listallnetworkservices
An asterisk (*) denotes that a network service is disabled.
USB 10/100/1000 LAN 2
USB 10/100/1000 LAN 3
USB 10/100/1000 LAN 4
USB 10/100/1000 LAN
Belkin USB-C LAN
Wi-Fi
HERO9
RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget
Thunderbolt Bridge
iPhone USB
NordVPN NordLynx
MacBookPro:~ gerd$ networksetup -getwebproxy “Wi-Fi”
Enabled: No
Server:
Port: 0
Authenticated Proxy Enabled: 0
MacBookPro:~ gerd$ networksetup -getsecurewebproxy “Wi-Fi”
Enabled: No
Server:
Port: 0
Authenticated Proxy Enabled: 0
MacBookPro:~ gerd$ networksetup -getsocksfirewallproxy “Wi-Fi”
Enabled: No
Server:
Port: 0
Authenticated Proxy Enabled: 0
MacBookPro:~ gerd$

It seams not…

This should be set automatically and not be the client’s responsibility to decide whether to use a proxy or not!

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But even if I activate it manually on the client side… tested on a site full of ads… it remains full of ads.

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I think you did an excellent job setting it everything up.

Could you check the logs, for any activity in URL Filter and check System Logs for any entries in Web Proxy log

As you see in my logs, URL Filter is unable to filter any traffic since all of the traffic is encrypted, I think you might be in the same situation.

Personally, I moved away from URL filter and started to use Jon’s DNS RPZ add-on for smaller blocklists. If you need to filter a lot more domains and you can afford a separate device, then a pihole might be able to handle a large block list. Let me know if you need help with any of these

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Did you block access to HTTPS and HTTP?

You need to block web traffic to force users to go threw proxy.