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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by soviel on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:22PM (#14915225)
I doubt it. People are specifically looking for open port 53. After reading a bit the pi-hole documentation, I found out they recommend pairing it with OpenVPN. https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/wiki/Pi-hole---OpenVPN-se...
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Re:Show HN: Ad-Free Life – Adblocking as a Service by saimiam on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:27PM (#14915257)
If OP is using a vpn to route traffic, they should call it out.

Our adblocker uses a much less intrusive idea than VPN to block unauthorized IPs from hitting 53.

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