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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by lvturner on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @09:32PM (#23709013)
Route icons.duckduckgo.com to null.

Sidenote: The more I use pi-hole the more I realise how essential it is!

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by jobigoud on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:56AM (#23710957)
Is there a difference between using pi-hole and edinting etc host on Windows? I've heard about pi-hole but I'm not sure what it does exactly.
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by GordonS on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:14AM (#23711043)
This is essentially the same, but pi-hole gives you a nice UI, stats etc, and of course you can point all your machine at a pi-hole instead of editing the hosts file on each.
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by jb775 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:16AM (#23710509)
Are you able to block youtube ads using pi-hole?
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by moepstar on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:27AM (#23710557)
Sadly, not anymore - used to be the case quite a while ago, but not today anymore as the ads come from the same domains the videos are streamed from.

Those simpler popover-ads which can be closed clicking an X in the upper right corner still are blocked tho...

Spilling my secret tho (and YouTube execs hate me for it!): i block YouTube in my mind and only rarely go to it if i really need to watch a video (which, for me, is rarer than i ever thought it'd be).

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by dredmorbius on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:53AM (#23710657)
https://invidio.us

Or mpv (for single videos, or local playlists), or mps-youtube, or youtube-dl.

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by mahaganapati on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:29AM (#23710563)
It's complicated and a quickly moving target. I use pi-hole plus local browser blocking like uBlock origin.
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