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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by littleweep on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:55AM (#22718240)
A lot of websites (news sites especially) detect in-browser ad blockers and urge users to whitelist the site before continuing to read the article.

This is a good workaround for that use case.

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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by op00to on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:55AM (#22718598)
No, the websites detect that a resource wasn't loaded which triggers the annoying stuff. This happens with a pihole, adblocker, maza, or plain ol' hosts file. Ad blockers aren't magic.
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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by shawnz on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:38PM (#22720325)
In fact it's a good argument for using in-browser adblockers, since in-browser adblockers are capable of blocking such nag screens whereas DNS-based ones are not
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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by maple3142 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:44PM (#22720391)
Agrees. Also, in-browser adblockers can do much more than a DNS-based adblocker. Such as removing dom element, injecting css to fix websites...
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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by ddrt on Sunday March 29, 2020 @05:18PM (#22722838)
Why not both?
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Re:Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating sy... by fuzzy2 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:11AM (#22718320)
This is also easily detectable.
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