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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by dheera on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:28PM (#25918633)
I added this to my /etc/hosts

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

What is the advantage of having DNS on a separate device other than that it provides ad blocking for multiple devices?

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by varenc on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:57PM (#25919017)
That’s the main benefit.

But also you can have more flexible block patterns. I run DNSCrypt-Proxy and my block lists can have wildcards. With /etc/hosts you have to enumerate each origin. It can also do things like IP blocking where if any domain resolves to a known ad network IP, then that request is blocked.

But mainly, DNSCrypt-proxy encrypts all my outgoing queries and round robins them across resolvers. (Also hi dheera!)

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