Adblock-Fast whitelisting ads on specific sites

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Installed Adblock-Fast on OpenWrt 25.12.3 and it blocks perfect and fast.
One problem: I want to allow some sites - with adblock warnings - to allow ad's on it.
As an example and test I added www.makeuseof.com to the allow list ("Allowed Domains"), but this seems not to work. Still gets the "We noticed that ads aren't being displayed." on this site.

What do I do or understand wrong?

Any help appreciated.

Hans Troost

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if the ads were hosted at www.makeuseof.com, you wouldn't be able to access the site prior to whitelisting it.

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Thanks frollic,
Your answer made me thinking again. Am I right that - what I wanted - is theoretically impossible when using DNS-based adblocking? So all "external" ads on a site will always be blocked, whatever you are doing? Except when - temporarily(!!) - disable the adblocker for a specific client, by local configuration or even - but how? - with OpenWrt.

So this keeps me thinking about what I really want, without disturbing the network for devices of my family. And how to achieve that.

Thanks for triggering my thinking,
Hans Troost

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if the ads are blocked, everything is working as intended.

point was, the ads aren't hosted by *.makeuseof.com (if they were the site would have been blocked too), you're whitelisting the wrong FQDN(s).

same reason why YT ads can't be blocked using DNS, they're served from the same hosts as the videos.

btw, there are anti anti-adblock pop up add-ons for browsers out there.

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thanks, clarified now...

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one more thing, the ad FQDNs used by makeuseof might be used by other sites too, there's no link between makeuseof and the ad provider/host, you should expect ads popping up on other sites too.