PFSENSE WEB FILTER WITH PFBLOCKERNG - Filter Ads and Malicious Websites

If you visit an average website today, countless scripts and trackers are loaded. This allows the website operators, Google, Facebook, etc. can collect data about you and track you through the vastness of the internet. Fortunately you don't have to surrender to this hustle and bustle and there are many useful extensions e.g. for the browser (uBlock Origin, uMatrix, etc.). These solutions have the disadvantage that you have to install them on each device and for each browser separately. Therefore, I would like to describe how you can build a pfSense web filter with pfBlockerNG to filter advertising, unwanted content and malicious websites network-wide. This is useful in a home or school network, for example.

[r.fortner]

That was such a nice explanation of pfblocker-NG and its implementation in pfSense! It was clear and succinct and actually much better than other intros done by native english speakers! Many thanks!

[thecybertech]

Excellent Video, I am a beginner to pf-sense and your explanations were GREAT, You gave just enough background so I did not get bogged down with items that MAY be relevant, but confusing to a newbie such as myself. After your videos I have my firewall up and running.
Thank You

[elianthony]

Thank you so much for this video. We're considering changing content filtering solutions during a changeover to pfSense on our routers.

[brtechnologies]

Hi, Can you please help with a query. Suppose we need to bypass a LAN side host for PFblockerNG then how it is possible. Pls, suggest.

[Martin-otxj]

Hi there, i have question please, pfblockerng can block ads on YouTube like pihole ? thnx

[vikaskhengre]

How to Block Online games and Android Emulator Games with help of pfsense???

[Dejavuxx]

Hi what version of linux are you using?

[homeassistantiptv]

Should the Action under PfBlockerNG\IP PRI1 be Deny Outbound or Deny Inbounnd?

[loujenerenico]

MaxMind License Key Free? or Subscription base?

[thonghoang]

Hello bro! Im having many routing static ip, so how to use pfblockng for all range IP in routing ? please help, tks

[brtechnologies]

Great thanks for your video. Its help me to set up the web-filtering module. I need your help to define a rule where i want to allow some websites to my few LAN users & at the same time i don't want to give access of these websites to my few users.

I have my PfSense firewall DNS pointing to the windows server DNS and thats probably why it is not working?

[sufyankhanbest]

how do I block or allow specific websites for specific outbound IP's

[caimer]

Is your website hacked, or did you give up the domain?
Where should I look for solutions if the site is closed?
Best regards, Anders

[macster]

can PfSense block connectivity to VPN apps?
I notice if I use a vpn on a smartphone, it bypasses any and all dns settings set by the router... My router has an option to force clients to use its DNS settings even if they change it on their device....But.. if they use a vpn app on their device, it completely bypasses the router.

[ClaudineyAlveses]

Hi! How are you? My environment runs on top of Active Directory and by default I use the windows server DNS because of this environment. Will the DNS change applied in pfBlocker impact the local network or only when the user goes to the internet? Grateful! Claudiney Alves (Brazil)

[darenjay]

Is there a way to block all domains except a few whitelisted domains? I also tried to follow your guide with squid/ and man-in-the-middle method. With squid it seems like I can block all domains with regular expression like (.*) but then none of my whitelisted domains will work. Seems like blacklist > whitelist priority.
Any idea?

[jaimejaime]

It is possible to block all website doing this and allow only selected sites?squid guard is ok but ssl certificate kind a pain to install to all machines.

[AFiB]

I made a mistake to install pfblockerng instead Devel... then remove and installed Devel version.... Im getting SQlite database missing, Force Reload DNSBL to recover.
Do you know how to fix? Yes, I tried Reload, reinstall, restart the services and still same issue.
I dont know how to fix the database

[mediacoregroupph]

Are you also the Stefan from CNC kitchen?