Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation
by babypuncher on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:41PM
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If advertisers felt motivated enough, circumventing PiHole would be trivial. Since all they do is block DNS requests based on a blacklist, an ad company just needs to serve their content from a trusted domain. Google owns plenty of domains which few PiHole users are likely to tolerate being blacklisted. They already do this with ads on YouTube.
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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation
by alaricus on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @04:28PM
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Youtube ads are not a problem because of uBlock Origin / Newpipe etc... I have not seen an ad in Youtube in more than a decade.
But you are right. This could motivate them to move to a single domain for all Google content. But this is just another escalation in the adblock arms range. uBlock-style blockers would proliferate.
Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation
by babypuncher on Thursday June 02, 2022 @04:08PM
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My solution has been to gravitate towards paid ad-free services, and avoid sites with business models I disagree with.