
Custom Block Page
Can we get the ability to customize the block page, add logos etc on the paid plan please?
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On the frontpage under "more features" it is listed:
Customizable Block Page Customize the optional page that shows up when a domain is being blocked.
Being able to turn it on and off hardly makes it customizable.
For me personally the looks it not that important. But being allowed to click through would be valuable. Especially if it is just blocked by an ad & tracker list. Or maybe even optional which blocking reasons that allow click through.
It could be implemented by returning a really low TTL on the query response that leads to the blocking page.
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Also adding support / request for ability to allow blocked pages to be bypassed by the end user from the block page. ie a ‘soft warn page’ instead / as well as a ‘hard block page’.
Appreciate that not all users would want this, but there’s always a balance between security/privacy and usability. Each NextDNS user will have their own needs - some will be happy with a ‘speed bump’ / warn approach which simply alerts the end user that the site is doing X or Y, and allow the end user discretion to continue.
Ideally this would be configurable based on the type of block. For me, if it’s blocked due to the explicit deny list then I probably want to force block that. But if it’s just blocking a Google Shopping Ad or similar I’m probably ok with the end user going ahead if they can’t find another way to access the content they need.
UBlock Origin has a flow which works well for the above - of course, that’s working at the browser level as opposed to DNS, so I’m not suggesting this makes it easy for NextDNS to implement, just pointing to a user experience that illustrates this type of feature in action.
thanks!
The ability to customise and remove NextDNS logo/branding also makes sense for those using the paid service in organisations to make circumventing slightly more onerous.
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Instead of just custom the logo or text let us choose how the block page behaves.
I like what clean browsing did, they provide 4 options.
1. return NXDOMAIN
2. return their own block page
3. redirect to an IP
4. redirect to the block page URLwith the option to redirect to an IP and redirect to a URL, we have unlimited options on how can we customize our own block page instead of just changing the logo or text.