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How to block Yuanbao

How to block Yuanbao on every device

Yuanbao is Tencent’s AI assistant, served from its own subdomain of tencent.com; the rest of Tencent stays reachable. Below: how to block Yuanbao in the browser, on phones and tablets, on your home or school network, and on managed devices.

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Yuanbao

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yuanbao.tencent.comBlocked

1 hostname in the Nullgen catalog

Every entry also covers its subdomains, so the Yuanbao app and API are blocked too.

What Yuanbao connects to

These are the hostnames Yuanbao uses for its website, its apps, and its API. Each entry is matched as a suffix — blocking yuanbao.tencent.com also blocks every subdomain of it — so the Yuanbao app cannot slip through on a hostname that is not listed. Shared hosts that other products need are deliberately left out.

Hostnames blocked for Yuanbao
HostnameRole
yuanbao.tencent.comMain website

Block Yuanbao in the browser

Free: the Nullgen browser extension

The free extension blocks Yuanbao and every other tool in the catalog in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. It works on the page itself — no DNS change, no policy — and updates as the catalog grows.

Managed browsers: block the sites by policy

On a school or company fleet, push the hostnames as a browser policy so Yuanbao is blocked even when someone uninstalls extensions. These snippets use the official Chrome, Edge, and Firefox policy names and the same hosts listed above.

Chrome and Edge — URLBlocklist

{
    "URLBlocklist": [
        "yuanbao.tencent.com"
    ]
}

Firefox — policies.json

{
    "policies": {
        "WebsiteFilter": {
            "Block": [
                "*://yuanbao.tencent.com/*",
                "*://*.yuanbao.tencent.com/*"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Chrome and Edge treat a bare hostname as the host plus every subdomain. Firefox needs both the apex and the wildcard pattern.

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Block the Yuanbao app on phones and tablets

Nullgen mobile app

The Nullgen app blocks Yuanbao and 100+ other AI apps and sites on the whole device with an on-device filter — the app, the website, and the API, on any network, with no DNS server to run. Included with Nullgen Pro.

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Without Nullgen: Screen Time on iPhone and iPad

  1. 1Open Settings → Screen Time → Content & Privacy Restrictions and turn restrictions on. This covers Yuanbao in Safari and in apps that use Apple’s web filter.
  2. 2Under Web Content, choose Limit Adult Websites — the setting that lets you deny yuanbao.tencent.com by name.
  3. 3Under Never Allow, add yuanbao.tencent.com. Safari and apps that use Apple’s web filter will refuse it.
  4. 4To keep the Yuanbao app off the device entirely, delete it and set Installing Apps to Don’t Allow, or use Ask to Buy on a child’s Apple Account.

Without Nullgen: Family Link on Android

  1. 1Open Family Link, choose the child, then Controls → Content restrictions → Google Chrome — where Yuanbao can be blocked by site.
  2. 2Choose Only allow approved sites, or add yuanbao.tencent.com under Blocked sites.
  3. 3Under Controls → App limits, block the Yuanbao app, or require approval for new installs from Google Play.

Block Yuanbao on your home or school network

A DNS blocker such as Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, NextDNS, or pfBlockerNG blocks Yuanbao for every device on the network — laptops, phones, consoles, and the Yuanbao app — without installing anything on them. Subscribe to the Yuanbao file from the public blocklist, or paste the rules directly.

AdGuard Home, uBlock Origin, and Brave rules

||yuanbao.tencent.com^

DNS blocking cannot see inside a VPN or a phone on mobile data. For a block that follows the device, use the Nullgen apps or an MDM profile.

Block Yuanbao on managed devices

Schools and companies can block Yuanbao on every managed iPhone, iPad, laptop, and Chromebook from the MDM they already run — Intune, Jamf, Kandji, or Google Workspace — with per-person policies and an approval flow for legitimate use. Nullgen Pro provides the profiles and the dashboard; these guides walk through the setup.

Questions about blocking Yuanbao

  • Does the free Nullgen extension block Yuanbao?

    Yes. The free extension blocks prompts on Yuanbao and every other AI tool in the catalog in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. It works on the page itself, so it needs no policy and no DNS change.

  • Will blocking Yuanbao break other websites?

    No. Every hostname on this page belongs to Yuanbao alone. Shared websites that other products depend on are never on the list — which is also why AI features built into those products stay reachable.

  • Can someone get around a Yuanbao block?

    A browser-only block can be bypassed with another browser or the Yuanbao app, and a network block can be bypassed with a VPN or a phone on mobile data. A block on the device itself — the Nullgen apps, Screen Time, or an MDM profile — follows the device wherever it goes.

  • Does this block the Yuanbao app, not just the website?

    A DNS or device-level block does. The app talks to the same hostnames listed above, and every entry covers its subdomains, so the app cannot slip through on a hostname that is not listed. A browser policy or extension only covers the browser.

  • What happens when Yuanbao adds a new hostname?

    The catalog is updated as vendors change, and the Nullgen apps, the extension, and the public blocklist all read from it, so a new hostname reaches every device without anyone editing a list by hand.

Block Yuanbao today

Start with the free browser extension. Add Nullgen Pro when you need the Yuanbao app blocked on phones, tablets, and desktops, with approvals for the people who really need it.