TOC

• The Matrix
  • Donations
  • Source list
  • Categorizing
  • Submitting
  • The Matrix
  • Whitelist
  • Bulk commits
  • FAQ
  • Official mirrors
  • Project Keywords

The Matrix

My Privacy DNS' "Matrix" project is a handcrafted and completely self-managed DNS Firewall through Response Policy Zones (RPZ).

The project aims to protect your privacy by blocking access to malicious domains and tracking servers to help you stay safe and secure. With the rise of online tracking and data breaches, it's more important than ever to take steps to protect your privacy online.

One of these features is the anti-porn (anti-NSFW) list, which blocks access to pornographic and explicit sites. This feature is especially useful for parents who want to ensure that their children are not exposed to inappropriate content online.

Donations

My Privacy DNS is an excellent way to protect your privacy online, and it also offers additional features to help you stay safe and secure. One of these features is the anti-porn list, which blocks access to pornographic and explicit sites. This feature is especially useful for parents who want to ensure that their children are not exposed to inappropriate content online.

With the rise of online tracking and data breaches, it's become more important than ever to take steps to protect your privacy online. My Privacy DNS is a great way to do just that. It's easy to use, highly effective, and completely free.

By donating to My Privacy DNS, you are not only supporting a great project that helps protect your privacy online, but you are also helping to ensure that it continues to provide this valuable service free of charge to the public. Additionally, you are supporting the development of other privacy-friendly software. Together, we can help protect our privacy and keep the internet safe and secure for everyone.

Source list

The source folder contains several sub-folders, each named as groups, for which a submission should be put. This however doesn't necessary mean that one domain can't be put into several 'groups'.

Ex. google.* which belongs to several groups as they represent all online evil, when we talk about privacy and anti-brainwashing/manipulation; Facebook is also well represented in several categories.

Categorizing

Each sub-folder of sources should contain its own README which in short describes what the list is all about and the criteria to add a domain into it's domain.list or wildcard.list. Each categories are explained in Matrix Source Files.

Submitting

To report problematic websites, please create a new issue for each domains. You will need to provide the URL and a screenshot for evidence.

There is a more easy way to report - you can also use our MyPDNS Reporter, which is one of many things, a Browser-based add-on, API, CLI (Command LIne Interface) , website and email for which you can choose between as you prefer.

Number of new reported domains that awaites processing

The Matrix

For the Adult filtering, please refer to the README

Intro: The difference between files inside source/category_name is that, with RPZ We do not nessesarily need to apply any found subdomain records, as wildcard is recognized as a valid blacklist record. This allow us to use only two types of record sheets wildcard.list and domain.list, this is also the explanation for why you haven't seen a hosts file within our source list.
So to use hour records with a non RPZ reconizing system such as Pi- hole and /etc/hosts or for spydoze %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, you would need to combine both the wildcard.list and domain.list.

Alternatively you can use our automatically combined weekly updated hosts-list

Whitelist

This list has its own life, as it's a very, very tricky one to maintain.

The reason for that is, it has to balance between what is going on with a domain that, for several reasons, might be blacklisted on some lists but not on others. It can also be that a domain in general is 99,9% right, but because of its nature of user based submissions, could do a lot of evil.

Ex. Github.com

Gitlab is hosting 100% user submitted content, but for the same reason, is also a target for cyber criminals to host their evil Malware. For that reason, Gitlab often pops up on lists for malicious code. But as that would have a huge influence on our workflow, it would, of course, have to be whitelisted on our list.

Bulk commits

Bulk commits will only be tolerated, if done by a @developer of the repository, does it and ONLY if and when the source is commonly trusted and if the amount of domains can justify it will be way too time consuming to open an issue for each domain changed in the targeted lists.

note: This rule shall always be a copy of the common Bulk commits rule.

FAQ

Q: Your lists have broken my website, by blocking a third party domain!

A: We have absolutely not broken your website by blocking any third-party domain. It's you and only you who has submitted bad code and mis-written your website to behave badly. Be happy we haven't blocked your website already for leaking privacy to third party.

Q: Why don't you whitelist example.com?

A:

1. It's up to individual users (i.e. you) to create and maintain their own whitelist.

2. By whitelisting bad domain X because website Y uses bad domain X, we're deceiving our users who believe they're protected against bad domain X.

3. Through this repository's issue board, we're trying our best to give people the right information for them to decide whether they should allow access to some domains, despite them being marked as bad.

Official mirrors

The following repositories are official mirrors and should (when things goes right) be updated by [push on commit][poc]

Project	Host	Metode (push | pull)
Adblocker Rules	https://git.disroot.org/my-privacy-dns/adblocker-rules	push
Adblocker Rules	https://git.kescher.at/my-privacy-dns/adblocker-rules	pull
Adblocker Rules	https://gitea.slowb.ro/spirillen/adblocker-rules	pull
Adblocker Rules	https://github.com/mypdns/adblocker-rules	push
Adblocker Rules	https://gitlab.com/my-privacy-dns/matrix/adblocker-rules	push
Adblocker Rules	https://notabug.org/my-privacy-dns/adblocker-rules	pull
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Matrix	https://git.disroot.org/my-privacy-dns/matrix	push
Matrix	https://gitea.slowb.ro/spirillen/matrix	push
Matrix	https://github.com/mypdns/matrix	push
Matrix	https://gitlab.com/my-privacy-dns/matrix/matrix	push
Matrix	https://notabug.org/my-privacy-dns/matrix	pull

Project Keywords

A few keywords for this project is Enhanced Privacy, DNS Firewall, Privacy First, RPZ, Response Policy Zone.