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Quickie: PeerBlock

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  1. Quickie: PeerBlock
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  3. A Quick Guide to PeerBlock.
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  5. Written by the Paranoid’s Bible Team
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  7. 1. Go here and look for your download of choice https://code.google.com/archive/p/peerblock/downloads
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  9. 2. For the usual (windows) user, it’ll be https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/peerblock/PeerBlock-Setup_v1.2_r693.exe
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  11. 3. Go ahead and choose the subscriptions at download however be aware they’ll try to demand a subscription later on (this can be circumvented)
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  13. 4. Settings should be up to you, however we recommend these
  14. > Settings two tab
  15. > Start with Windows - checked
  16. > All these update checkboxes checked | Days set to 1
  17. > use proxy untouched
  18. > Auto-close window after update - checked
  19. > Seconds set to 10
  20. > Notify on HTTP blocks | Blink tray icon
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  22. 5. Now before you begin to add any IPs or list subscriptions, right click the PeerBlock icon and ensure you’ve un-ticked “Allow HTTP”
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  24. 6. Now go to your subscriptions/lists in “List Manager” and ensure every one of them is disabled. From there, enable the default four: P2P; Spyware; Advertising; Education.
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  26. 7. With these four enabled only, go to the sites you frequent most or sites that you need to use from time to time.
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  28. 8. Looking at the IPs being blocked in PB, on its main screen, you’ll need to right click it and select “Allow permanently” to see if the page is now unblocked or not. You’ll have to repeat this step several times.
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  30. 9. Remember to re-block the ones that aren’t needed in order access or use a website. If in doubt, do a search query on that IP.
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  32. 10. Once the initial troubleshooting is done, and you’re able to visit your usual websites. You can now begin to add more subscriptions/lists to your installation of PeerBlock.
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  34. 11. Before we go to any site for a subscription/list, and before we add our own rules, click the “Add” button and look at the new window that popped up.
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  36. 12. By the “Add URL” line, you should see a dropdown menu. We’ll be adding the subscriptions/lists from there and re-doing the troubleshooting like before.
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  38. 13. Ensure you name each subscription/list appropriately as to avoid mislabeling or misplacing lists. You’ll have to disable and/or delete several lists before we’re done.
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  40. 14. As you do this and wind down the series of lists, you should see that you now have 15 lists/subscriptions.
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  42. 15. One of the easier sites to find subscriptions/lists on would be Omegle Warden http://omeglewarden.weebly.com/description.html (Avoid their “Allow list” and their “countryblockipite.p2p” list for now)
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  44. 16. You should also now have 20 lists/subscriptions enabled on PeerBlock. Proceed with troubleshooting until everything works once again.
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  46. 17. If you run into issues, like an image not loading correctly, please right-click on them and select “View image”. This will take you directly to the image, itself, and will allow you to unblock the IPs needed more easily.
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  48. 18. Now let’s go to I-Blocklist. There’ll be quite a few lists/subscriptions that you’ll need from here. So, please, take your time and relax. https://www.iblocklist.com/
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  50. 19. Click the “Lists” link and head to “Country”. Look for your Country’s list, add it to your subscriptions/lists and allow it. From there, select the US’ IP list and allow it, too. You should, hopefully, see quite a bit of the internet working for you and still blocking a lot of individual IPs.
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  52. 20. Now head to the “General” tab and adding each subscription/list (Sans the “Exclusion” list), we should have 51 lists being blocked, except the allow list we’re working on through troubleshooting.
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  54. 21. With the “Organization” lists, everything should be set to be blocked and then you should troubleshoot as normal. However, once done, if you use any of these services, or any programs or websites do set them to “allow” whenever you use these services or programs or visit their websites (remember: to block them once again).
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  56. 22. You should also have around 71 lists/subscriptions now on your installation. Let’s hit ISPs. When you’re blocking these ISPs, remember to allow your ISP. If your ISP isn’t on the list, ensure that they aren’t renting or are a part of any of the ISPs listed.
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  58. 23. Now troubleshoot and you’ll be done with a final list tally of 82 subscriptions/lists.
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  60. 24. Before starting this next step, please double check all of your troubleshooting. Start slow and check each site you and service you use often. Once you’ve ensured everything works correctly, proceed.
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  62. 25. Now, you can select the country lists/subscriptions from Omegle Warden (E.G: countryblockipite.p2p) and the lists/subscriptions from I-Blocklists.
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  64. 26. With the troubleshooting done, you should be around 309 subscriptions/lists and have a large range of IPs blocked. Once done, you should rarely, if ever, have to unblock HTTP.
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  66. 27. Now it’s time to block the US’ IPs list and your country’s IP list. The reason for this is that you should be able to have a permanent allow list with all the IPs that you need in order to access any of your needed or preferred websites and services.
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  68. Please read the full guide here: https://paranoidsbible.tumblr.com/post/156745976239/peerblock-and-you
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