What are wildcards?
Some blocklists use wirdcards to block all subdomains for a domain. Wildcards look like this:
*.example.com
The asterisk (*) means that anything can replace it, and hence, in this example, any subdomain of the domain example.com will be blocked. Examples of domains that would be blocked:
news.example.com
something.else.example.com
example.com
Please note that the wildcard can only be placed as a prefix (before the domain), and only one wildcard is supported per entry.
Which versions of Blokada support wildcards?
Blokada 4 supports wildcards for a long while now. It needs to be manually activated under the Advanced Adblocking option menu. It supports adding blocklists with wildcards, or even adding your own entries with wildcards. Learn more about advanced adblocking here.
Blokada 5 for Android supports wildcards starting with v5.11. There is no need to enable this feature, it will be automatically enabled for blocklists that contain wildcards. Currently, the default blocklist (in v5.11) has wildcards, so this feature is automatically activated by default.
Blokada for ios supports wildcards as well. All you need to do is configure them over at app.blokada.org
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