  In the low temperature confining phase of QCD or QCD-like theories it is
challenging to capture the temperature dependence of observables through
AdS/CFT. Using the blackfold approach we compute the quark-antiquark linear
static potential in the low temperature confining phase, taking into account
the thermal excitations of the string. We find the explicit temperature
dependence of the string tension and notice that, as naturally expected,
tension decreases as temperature increases. We have also generalized the
blackfold approach for the computation of the Wilson loops, making it directly
applicable to a large class of backgrounds.
