I've been using a RPi4 for some time now, always with the default
adlist:

<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts>

Today I added EasyPrivacy

<https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt>

and the problems began. I wasn't able to reach startpage.com anymore.
Logs showed Pi-Hole was blocking

vf.startpage.com

which is part of the EasyPrivacy list. I tried whitelisting it in Domain management, but it doesn't work, so now I've disabled EasyPrivacy.

I'm obviously doing something wrong, but what? How can I enable the
adlist and still have access to startpage.com?

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On Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:49:39 +0100
"s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:16:52 +0100, s|b wrote:

I wasn't able to reach startpage.com anymore.
Logs showed Pi-Hole was blocking

vf.startpage.com

Must be coincidence, eu.startpage.com seems to be down according to:

<https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/eu.startpage.com>

That's a great irony; my olde (XP vintage) browser doesn't allow me to type anything in the search box!

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On Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:49:39 +0100, s|b wrote:

Must be coincidence, eu.startpage.com seems to be down according to:

<https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/eu.startpage.com>

It's not a coincidence: startpage has been having problems since Dec 6.
It has nothing to do with me reinstalling Pi-Hole and adding adlists. I
found a thread in Reddit:

<https://www.reddit.com/r/StartpageSearch/comments/1h8oenx/startpagecom_down/>

Apparently it's the EU servers; they've been working on and off. The US
servers should work.

I also found this: <https://www.electrondepot.com/rpi/pi-hole-easyprivacy-blocks-startpage-com-4368425-.htm>

Why are these guys logging without mentioning their source? For anyone
reading this on electrondepot.com: this is a posting sent through a news
server to the newsgroup comp.sys.raspberry-pi. You're all welcome, use
Eternal September as a (free) news server.

<https://www.eternal-september.org/>
<news:comp.sys.raspberry-pi>

(I'm curious if they're going to respect my X-No-Archive:yes header...)

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On Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:09:16 +0100, s|b wrote:

(I'm curious if they're going to respect my X-No-Archive:yes header...)

No, they're not. How rude.

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