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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by JohnFen on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:44PM (#28633392)
That's why I had to start MITMing all of my HTTPS connections.
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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by zo1 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @04:17PM (#28634693)
That's when the apps start embedding(pinning) certificates and completely ignoring any additional root certs you might want them to accept from the OS.
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Re:The NSA and CIA use ad blockers by userbinator on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:39PM (#28636969)
That's when you start injecting your own certificate into the certificate verification APIs... one of the amazing powers you get when you're root and actually have full control of your device, no wonder it scares big (ad)tech for users to have that power.
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