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Re:The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers by gruez on Thursday May 10, 2018 @04:03PM (#17042461)
how does that work with https?
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Re:The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers by 64kbisalluneed on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:26PM (#17043105)
Just install nginx that answers to http and https and return empty gif or 204.
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Re:The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers by Chaebixi on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:33PM (#17043155)
Would that fail because your sever can't provide the right cert? You'd probably have to install a custom root certificate on your machines that you https ad blocker could use to forge certs.
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Re:The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers by 64kbisalluneed on Thursday May 10, 2018 @06:57PM (#17043626)
Yes, custom cert has to be used, otherwise browsing could be very annoying.
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