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Which sites are on the block list?

There are two site lists in Fold’em. Site blocking's own list, 356,500 known gambling domains held on Fold’em’s servers and answered by its resolver, reaches every browser on this phone. The second list is yours: websites you pick with Add a site on the Sites layer once at least one app is blocked, which Screen Time blocks while protection holds. The operators with a page of their own say which of their domains were answered, measured against the live resolver rather than asserted.

Updated October 2026

Two lists, and they are never added together

The known list is site blocking's own. It holds 356,500 gambling domains, it lives on Fold’em’s servers, and the resolver answers for every one of them with nowhere. Because the resolver answers the name lookup for the whole phone, that list reaches Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge and the browsers built into other apps alike. It is the number the setup walk and the landing page quote, and it is the only list that grows on its own.

The second list is the one you make. Add a site, on the Sites layer once at least one app is blocked, opens Apple's picker, and a website you pick there is listed under Added by you and blocked by Screen Time while protection holds, with Fold’em’s own block screen in front of it. It is a short list of the places the known list happened to miss, not an attempt at breadth, and its count is yours alone.

How the web shield stops a betting site A browser asks for a betting address. The question goes to dns.foldem.app, the resolver you set once on the phone. The resolver answers 0.0.0.0, the address for nowhere, so the page never loads and the site itself is never reached. There is no tunnel, and the resolver sees the names your phone looks up, never the pages you open. It blocks known gambling domains across every browser on this phone. THE RESOLVER, FOR EVERY APP bet365.com where? 0.0.0.0 dns.foldem.app one setting Never reached The page never loads 0.0.0.0 is the address for nowhere. No tunnel. It sees the names your phone looks up, never the pages you open.
Every lookup on the phone goes to dns.foldem.app, which answers a betting domain with 0.0.0.0, the address for nowhere, so the page never loads. There is no tunnel, and it blocks known gambling domains across every browser on this phone.

Checking what is covered

  1. Read the Sites layer first

    No list matters while the resolver is not answering. On the Lock tab, tap the pill, then Sites. A page that leads with 356,500 and the line "gambling sites blocked in every browser and app" means the known list is answering. A red Sites tile, with "Site blocking is off, so gambling sites are open." or "Another VPN is in front of site blocking.", means the known list is not the one holding.

    The Sites page over Lock: a globe with a shield, 356,500, gambling sites blocked in every browser and app, the line To add a site, block at least one gambling app first., and How Sites works.

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  2. Look up the operator

    The operators with a page of their own say which of their domains were answered by the resolver, measured against the live resolver rather than asserted. Of 104 operators checked on 1 September 2026, 76 had at least one of their domains answered.

  3. Add whatever is missing

    Tap Add a site. Apple's picker opens with what you already blocked ticked; pick the website there and finish, leaving at least one app ticked. It joins Added by you for as long as protection holds, and nothing on the list leaves before then.

How the lists change

The known list lives on Fold’em’s servers, so it grows without an app update and without anything for you to do. Your own list changes only when you add to it, and only upward while protection runs.

Somebody comparing list sizes across products is asking a different question, and how to block gambling apps on iPhone answers that one.

What this does not do

No list of gambling domains is complete, and Fold’em does not claim one is. The operator pages state coverage site by site because that is the only honest form: a site that redirects to a domain nobody has catalogued will load. Both lists cover this phone, not a laptop or a second device. And a blocked domain is not a blocked account: Fold’em does not close, freeze or self exclude you from an operator, which is what a national self exclusion scheme does, and the two hold different ground.

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