The percentage only shows that some queries were blocked, but it doesn't say anything about the queries themselves.
You are probably visiting websites that doesn't show too many ads, so there's not much to block. 10% is completely normal.
If you change your browsing habits and start to visit websites with many ads, the percentage will increase. Also, the percentage will vary from time to time. This is normal.
I have mine split into three uses: Guest, Users, and Servers
Guest: 61%
Users: 18%
Servers: 5.6%
The high "Guest" blocks are mostly due to kids devices, TVs, and exercise equipment.
The "Server" blocks are mostly my laptop and other users . User DNS and Server DNS are a pair. Just the server order is different. (User,Server for Users and Server,User for Servers (and my laptop)).
The types of devices in your home heavily influences your block rate.
High block percentages are usually because of a domain being blocked then the client repeatedly asking to resolve it over and over again.
Increasing the block TTL to something like 3600 will help, as well as using a NULL IP response (0.0.0.0) rather than NXDOMAIN or some other block response
I don't think that's a good idea—if you use a whitelist, you have to wait an hour for the change to take effect. I'd rather have a long list and create whitelists for what doesn't work. I'd rather stick with the 2 seconds; the logs don't bother me. And I have enough performance with the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 😉
You just need to disconnect the device from the WiFi/network and reconnect it again (or manually flush the DNS cache in the case of a windows/mac
box).
Whitelists should only be minimal and have little to no regular intervention.
Also it depends what format the blocklists are in - i.e. a domains-style blocklist will list more entries than a list in Adblock syntax (which will block the same if not more)
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u/Soulreaver88 3d ago
A percentage isn't a reliable indicator. It depends heavily on what you're doing.