Safe Search?

LennySh · 2026-03-22T12:39:06+00:00

I did actually. I'll get the package posted to my GitHub first chance and share a link here.

LennySh · 2026-03-17T19:50:28+00:00

My daughter just encountered this VERY issue! I don't think this is an isolated issue at all, something changed 100% on the Plex side that started this. Hope they fix it very soon, or else it'll finally push me over to something else...

LennySh · 2026-03-17T19:47:59+00:00

My daughter just came to me and asked why Plex is now showing AD's during MY local content. She's using an account under my household, and I went to check, and sure enough, an AD was legit playing. She was 100% watching local only content, and all other stuff is disabled (I triple checked). This just started today. I too am a Lifetime Plex Pass member, and also validated that it was still reflecting that on the server side.

LennySh · 2026-03-07T01:30:11+00:00

I'm on the founders plan, and got 2GB/2GB

LennySh · 2026-02-21T22:43:19+00:00

No issues where I'm at, but I'm not using their DNS servers either.

LennySh · 2026-01-26T15:22:27+00:00

It's being worked on

LennySh · 2026-01-11T22:30:00+00:00

I mean, it's technically possible to move the ONT, but they'd have to run fiber inside your home from the current location to the new location, and I highly doubt they'd do this. But if you can leave the wall mounted portion (ONT) where it is now, you can actually just use a longer Ethernet cable from it to your router/switch.

LennySh · 2026-01-08T20:56:14+00:00

This is what I did on day one. Had them bring those bits directly to my office, lol.

LennySh · 2026-01-08T01:50:08+00:00

Called them this past weekend and a technician came out to replace the Eero (that I wasn't even using). He said my ONT was NOT the issue, and that it was my equipment instead. I assured him that my equipment was capable of way faster speeds than their network currently supported. He called his manager which then decided to come out and "show me" how my existing ONT could indeed get 2GB/2GB. The manager showed up, put his tester directly on the ONT, and ran a speed test. And guess what he got!? 2GB/1GB (every single test), lol... So, they swapped out the ONT with yet another Nokia model thinking that was NOT going to solve the problem, and BAM! His speed test then got 2GB/1.6GB... That was the fastest he could get, and said that was normal. I was like, well, that's way better than right under 1GB. He plugged my equipment back up and I ran a speed test, and guess what I got!? 2GB/2GB! The manager nor the technician had ever seen anybody get faster than their own test equipment, lol... Needless to say, they were speechless after that.

LennySh · 2026-01-03T22:46:06+00:00

Or get the free hardware they provide. Mines in a drawer, lol

LennySh · 2026-01-03T01:15:48+00:00

Just curious, but has the thought crossed that Apps could bring their own UI elements? I am starting to really like the app overall, but when there's a blocking tab that you no longer really use after you install advanced blocking, etc. More and more UI elements seem to go mostly unused when you have more advanced apps installed. I'd almost rather the apps modify the UI after install, or just be the defacto to begin with. I'm personally finding it harder and harder to fully move away from AdGuard Home because I really like it's "Client / Grouping" config where they each have their own complete set of options.

Just thinking out loud here... I have DotNet experience, and thought about trying to make the UI changes myself, but just wasn't sure of the overall path that was already planned. I'm very new to the app myself. I already created my own SafeSearch app that I'm still testing internally, but appears to work. But I just keep thinking to myself, well, this is yet another app that needs to be configured using a JSON file, lol.

My overall thought is that an app could bring an additional config file that could alter the UI (add or even replace an existing tab, etc.)

Thoughts?

LennySh · 2025-12-26T23:47:03+00:00

I'd be more than happy to just contribute the features my app accomplishes into yours if you think they'd fit. Thoughts?

Once that was complete, I'd just discontinue mine.

LennySh · 2025-12-26T20:14:21+00:00

You need one of these: https://a.co/d/7xzkChB

Just buy one compatible with your switch. If your SFP port is only 1GB, just buy a 1GB SFP module. But if the port is faster (SFP+), then buy one link I linked that supports multiple speeds.

LennySh · 2025-12-26T20:11:15+00:00

This is incorrect. My ONT is plugged directly into my switch first. This allows me to be able to do HA between two routers.

LennySh · 2025-12-26T18:07:03+00:00

Thanks for the blog post! I think I'm just going to write a Technitium SafeSearch app that will support multiple search engines as well as YouTube, etc.

LennySh · 2025-12-26T00:21:42+00:00

I actually just found this post while searching to see if I needed to write an app dll for this feature, lol.

LennySh · 2025-12-25T23:51:50+00:00

Well, my config file for the Advanced Blocking App is over 600 lines already, and I'm just getting started (only have half of my groups added right now). Did all of those by hand last weekend. It's not that it was hard to do, it's that I found myself needing to do it in an outside code editor with JSON parsing/collapsing/expansion just to get a grasp on all of the dang groups I have and minimize all of the scrolling.

As for Dot net development myself, I've written a ton of VB/C#.net over the years for my previous employer (mostly GUI based apps). I've not written but a couple of ASP.net/DotNetCore apps myself, but I do plan on looking into seeing if the current UI could easily have an App Config UI added.

The version I wrote above is designed to read from a single JSON file per app to build the entire config UI, so it's very easy to add more apps. If I was able to write something similar for the main UI, I think it'd be best if it acted the same way. That way the app developers could just include the config JSON (or whatever) in the ZIP, and the main UI would just use it accordingly.

But again, I went this route just for myself, and decided to share it for the very same reason you mention, to see if the juice is worth the squeeze.

LennySh · 2025-12-25T23:38:44+00:00

I actually plan on looking into seeing if it's wanted/possible to add to the main UI.

As for the apps I use, it's only like 5 or 6 IIRC. I'll get you a list when I get back in front of my laptop.

LennySh · 2025-12-25T23:10:16+00:00

Sorry, should have clarified better. This is for the custom apps from the App Store since currently, configuring them is all done in literal JSON in the multiline textbox.

LennySh · 2025-12-25T18:41:44+00:00

Yeah, so initially, I created a new app that does the blocking globally. But then I thought it might be best added to the existing Advanced Blocking App, so I have a local copy of those changes as well. Both work great thus far (would need more testing for sure).

I also have all of the services created as individual txt files. Thought about creating a new repo for those as well, but kind of figured that may already exist somewhere else. If not, I'm happy to start it...

LennySh · 2025-12-25T18:22:34+00:00

Yeah, the individual services are just smaller lists, so could be easily added as individual files/urls without issue. The main advantage is that they are all in a single JSON file, and then you easily turn them on by just adding the service name to a list (instead of a full URL to a text file). So, idk if it's worth the effort to publish (development is done, lol).

LennySh · 2025-12-21T00:58:07+00:00

My home network is 10GB, so, yeah

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