Website Category Filtering

[PeeWeeHerman]

I'm looking to filter by website categories. I know that there are cloud services that provide this functionality but that involves sending a request to them every time.

Are there any places where I can get the latest category lists and process them locally ?
Since I don't want to store the internet on my hard drive, it would be good if there were options for a 'popular website' list or specific category list which I work locally and then 'outsource' the rest.

I understand that those lists become IP for some companies, so if there are no free ones I'm willing to pay a 'reasonable' amount (human reasonable not Bill Gates reasonable).

Unfortunately googling for 'website category lists' either gives me services providing this in their package or at best a REST endpoint for checking individual URLs.

The only other way  i can think of doing this is of building up a local cache on every website visited but I would like to have some predefined (smaller problem) and there is no way for me to keep the list from stagnating (bigger problem).

[thefunkygibbon]

did you get anywhere with finding a list?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

What about filtering at the DNS level with the AdGuard Home plugin and a couple of suitable lists?

[thefunkygibbon]

thats what i've been doing previously with the likes of pihole.  but the downsides of it are that a) the settings are global for everyone on the network and b) if someone changes their dns settings they can get around it

[RamSense]

In Aduard home you can configure what device gets what block or allow by using client settings or using custom filtering rules.

have you tried that?

[thefunkygibbon]

No but I'll give it a go. Is it another DNS server or sepeerate?  I'm already running pihole on a server and dnsmasq&unbound on the firewall

[thefunkygibbon]

In Aduard home you can configure what device gets what block or allow by using client settings or using custom filtering rules.

have you tried that?

just looked at my plugin list and i don't see adguard! ?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

You need the community repo:
https://www.routerperformance.net/opnsense-repo/