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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by rndomsrmn on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:07AM (#22535537)
Dnsmasq 'address=' function is just a substr() call, which is as fast as 'normal' hostname blocking (host == "adhost.com"). No regex magic is required there.

You are not able to block something like 'ads.%.adhost.com', but only (prepending wildcard) '%.ads.adhost.com', which in practice will cover almost all scenarios where random subdomains are used by adhosts.

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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by lightswitch05 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:18AM (#22535617)
Pihole uses a forked version of dnsmasq they named 'Pi-hole FTL engine'. I don't believe there are any features of dnsmasq that cannot be used with the PiHole - but how to configure it to work alongside of PiHole might not be as obvious.
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Re:The opt-out illusion: how we have acquiesced to losing ou... by rndomsrmn on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:49AM (#22535891)
It is possible to use this feature 'in' Pi-Hole, see: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/wiki/Install-...
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