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Re:Open DNS resolvers, from bad to worse by leokennis on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:24PM (#31372162)
Love it too. You set it up and it just works. Basically once a year PayPal notifies me I paid them $20, and in exchange I don’t see any ad, ever, anywhere.
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Re:Open DNS resolvers, from bad to worse by sigg3 on Friday May 13, 2022 @05:09PM (#31372555)
That's awesome! What about yt ads? I'm using a pihole but I can't seem to cover the google ad servers in the region (northern Europe).
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Re:Open DNS resolvers, from bad to worse by JackGreyhat on Friday May 13, 2022 @05:34PM (#31372747)
If im not mistaken, yt serves ads from its first party domain, making it hard to block from a dns perspective. Blockers such as uBlock do it by blocking elements or code, not dns lookups.
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Re:Open DNS resolvers, from bad to worse by sigg3 on Saturday May 14, 2022 @03:01AM (#31375701)
Cool, that makes sense. I have quite a few false positives with Google Ads.
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Re:Open DNS resolvers, from bad to worse by leokennis on Saturday May 14, 2022 @03:34AM (#31375863)
Like the other person said, these are basically unblockable by DNS and if you block them by other means it causes a lot of “collateral damage”.

So my statement was not entirely correct :-)

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