Exemptions from Blocklists

Managed Blacklists come in the form of these five major lists, although there could be many more, and different ones, depending on your plan and subscriptions to shared blacklists from other sources:

Sometimes the need arises to exempt a single domain from being blacklisted. Let’s use googleadservices.com as an example here. Let’s say you wanted to allow this domain through, without disabling third party advertising altogether. Here’s how you would achieve that using Forwarding lists .

  • Log into your dashboard at dashboard.adamnet.works
  • Under MANAGE RULES -> My Rules , select “Add List
  • In the ‘List Type’ dropdown, choose “Forwarding List
  • Name the list as “Exempt from being blocked
  • In the ‘DNS Resolver’ dropdown, select ‘8.8.8.8’ (or click ‘Create a new resolver’ as needed)
  • In the ‘Domains’ field, enter googleadservices.com so it looks like this:

  • Finally, on your dashboard, go MANAGE NETWORK -> Policies and turn it on for all the Policies where you wish it so apply, so it looks like this:

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