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Facebook blocking seem to affect Instagram as well

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I have enabled Facebook blocking within Parental Controls (where you can select services ie TikTok, Youtube and blanket block them with a toggle). This rule blocks the "fbcdn.net" domain. However Instagram also uses this CDN to deliver photos to the client, and the blocking of this DNS query results in instagram breaking (or more specifically behaves unexpectedly). Unblocking this specific domain solved my issue, but it made me come up with feedback.

The parental controls blanket service blocking should be more transparent in telling the user what domains are going to be blocked. The regular rules are all viewable on the site, or if they aren't, they're just text documents that are not hosted or controlled by on Adguard DNS, so they can be viewed online. However this parental controls feature is a black box to me, and while I'm aware Facebook and Instagram are technically the same (insta uses web.facebook.com ads and trackers, and as the above example shows it uses facebook cdns to deliver content), however the service list has a separate entry for Instagram, so one would assume that blocking Facebook and NOT blocking Instagram would still allow Instagram to function normally.

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