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I couldn't get to phonearena.com, and when I checked it's in one of the default lists used by Adblocker on OpenWrt (adaway, adguard, disconnect, yoyo):

::: ::: domain 'phonearena.com' in active blocklist ::: + phonearena.com

Any thoughts!!?

Edit: Is there a good site or script to run through the Adblock lists, check them and report the location of matches?

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The only thing that I could find was from 2017, where phonearena were apparently re-injecting ads using WebRTC to bypass adblocking. So perhaps you are using an old blocklist such as this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt.

Thanks for the info. I found the raw blocklists on the router and the domain is in the 'disconnect' list, which I believe from a bit of reading is a tracker blocker list:

  Z:\adblock-temp\extracted\adb_list.disconnect (1 hit)
 Line 1367: com.phonearena

I did check the .json source files at the disconnect github page (about a month old) and the site is not listed. Beyond that I have better things to do with my Sunday!!

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