Patch shipped: v1.6.152 — UGREEN telemetry blocklist is working again (it had stopped on Pi-hole v6)
Posted by tomspark
Heads-up for anyone on a UGREEN NAS. SparkBox blocks your NAS from phoning home to its vendor — telemetry, crash reporting, cloud relay — automatically the moment Pi-hole is installed. While testing on a real NAS this week I found that on the current Pi-hole version (v6), that blocklist had quietly stopped loading, so those domains weren't actually being blocked anymore. I confirmed the NAS was still reaching home, fixed it, and verified the telemetry domains now resolve to a dead address again. Grab it with sudo sparkbox upgrade. Sorry it slipped — the privacy side is the whole point of running your own box, so I'm glad we caught it. If you want to double-check on your end, your Pi-hole query log should show those vendor domains getting blocked.