Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to Avira servers

Re:Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to A... by Gigachad on Saturday March 12, 2022 @07:35AM (#30650955)

It’s a lost cause. The router should be treated as hostile and shouldn’t be allowed to know anything if possible. DNS over HTTPS and that SNI encryption stuff should be used.

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Re:Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to A... by quotha on Saturday March 12, 2022 @07:44AM (#30650983)

How do you plan on blocking ad servers with DoH?

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Re:Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to A... by Gigachad on Saturday March 12, 2022 @07:53AM (#30651024)

With ublock origin. DNS level ad blocking is rubbish and mostly circumvented by providers now.

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Re:Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to A... by sloshnmosh on Saturday March 12, 2022 @09:47AM (#30651719)

I heard that ads were able to circumvent DNS by using canonical names.

But uBlock origin and PiHole both do CNAME inspection to block this.

Is there other ways that ads are circumventing DNS ad-blockers such as PiHole?

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Re:Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to A... by Gigachad on Saturday March 12, 2022 @03:27PM (#30654601)

I have found that rather than finding a way to sneak ads in, most non browser apps will just detect that the ads are missing and throw up an error refusing to display the content.

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