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  • Pi-Hole - EasyPrivacy blocks startpage.com

    From s|b@3:770/3 to All on Sat Dec 7 17:16:52 2024
    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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    s|b

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@3:770/3 to me@privacy.invalid on Sat Dec 7 18:03:52 2024
    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!

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From s|b@3:770/3 to All on Sun Dec 8 23:09:16 2024
    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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    s|b

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From s|b@3:770/3 to All on Mon Dec 9 13:58:56 2024
    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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    s|b

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)