I'm pretty new to pfBlocker, so apologies if this question has been asked before
or the reason is obvious
I installed pfBlockerNG-devel on my system and followed the link below to setup
https://linuxincluded.com/block-ads-malvertising-on-pfsense-using-pfblockerng-dnsbl/
Navigating to Firewall/pfBlocker/DNSBL and looking through the DNSBL Whitelist I see a number of entries that look like they may be related to advertising
e.g.
.amazon-adsystem.com # amazon app ads
.px.moatads.com # amazon app 2
.pixel.adsafeprotected.com # amazon app 4
.adsafeprotected.com # amazon app 6
.anycast.static.adsafeprotected.com # CNAME for (static.adsafeprotected.com)
Trying to navigate to any of these links in a browser, they get blocked by uBlock Origin
but I guess the Whitelist purpose is to allow these sites
where uBlock Origin is not active
Other links in the DNSBL Whitelist like
.pfsense.org
.netgate.com
can be navigated to in a browser without any issue
So my question is:
why would URLs that look like advertising be whitelisted in pfBlocker
Thanks for reading and any explanation much appreciated