Optimal DNS Ad Blocker

Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by bognition on Friday July 29, 2016 @02:40PM (#12188929)

Very interesting. I'd be curious to know what Optimal plans to do with all the DNS traffic they'll be collecting

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by chews on Friday July 29, 2016 @02:45PM (#12188972)

Selling it to advertisers. duh.

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by matt_wulfeck on Friday July 29, 2016 @03:00PM (#12189089)

I'm definitely weary of handing over my DNS data to a company I don't know. Besides, Safari ad blocking plugins already take care of this while surfing.

This may have unintended (both good or bad) affects on normal app experience since it's configured on the network.

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by optimalrob on Friday July 29, 2016 @04:54PM (#12189917)

We are not selling this information and never will. We built a safari blocker called fewerads that's in the App Store. But we found lots of users wanted to block ads in chrome mobile or inside Twitter or Facebook (to be clear, web ads, not those platforms' ads), which is what lead us to this idea.

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Re:Optimal DNS Ad Blocker by rconti on Friday July 29, 2016 @03:55PM (#12189485)

For a few bucks more a month, I'll sell you a proxy service through which you can proxy your DNS requests to optimal!

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