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Ubiquity EdgeMAX Ad & Malware Blocking Content Filtering using EdgeRouter

This will show you how to use your EdgeRouter as a local DNS server and blocking DNS queries to domains that hosts ads and malware. An alternative is to use Pi-hole, which gives many features such as web UI, statistics, DNS-over-HTTPS, and possibly better written code ;)

The blocklists used are:

• Ad blocklist from Yoyo Internet Services
• High risk domains from DShield
• Medium risk domains from DShield
• Low risk domains from DShield

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# First, enable SSH in the Administration->System tab.
# Then log in to the device.

# Verify that https_crt_save is off
admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# nvram get https_crt_save
0

# Enable https_crt_save and verify that it was set correctly
admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# nvram set https_crt_save=1
admin@RT-N66U:/tmp/home/root# nvram get https_crt_save