Re:I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets
by m463 on Friday August 09, 2019 @05:41PM
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I'm guessing a dns lookup of annoying.adserver.com returns the pihole ip address (or a dedicated alternate address)
Then when your browser tries to load content from annoying.adserver.com it connects to the pihole, which returns dummy content (a blank image or html page)
I would imagine hardcoded ip addresses in trackers/ads might bypass pihole.
Then when your browser tries to load content from annoying.adserver.com it connects to the pihole, which returns dummy content (a blank image or html page)
I would imagine hardcoded ip addresses in trackers/ads might bypass pihole.