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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by ratww on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @12:43PM (#31584520)
Yeah, the industry is definitely moving to that. Admiral, probably the most known ad-blocker-blocker already successfully circumvents PiHole and other DNS blocking by being served by the same domain.

I also expect Google to double down on Chrome Manifest v3 limitations if ad-blocking keeps getting more popular. Or even using DNS-over-HTTPS as a default on Chrome if ISP blocking ever becomes a thing.

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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by alaricus on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @02:00PM (#31585630)
Do you have pointers on what Admiral is doing? I just remember they tried to get their domains removed from blocklists via DMCA.
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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by ratww on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @03:18PM (#31586676)
For most customers, it seems they just went and bought about 2 thousand randomly-named domains and serve third-party scripts. However I've seen a couple places where Admiral was not blocked, because it was being served from a subdomain. I wish I had written down where it was to add to the EasyList or something. :(
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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by alaricus on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:16PM (#31588240)
https://github.com/jkrejcha/AdmiraList/blob/master/AdmiraLis...
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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by ratww on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:45PM (#31588559)
That's a good list.

This one seems more up to date, apparently the owner is scraping from somewhere: https://github.com/dotspencer/block-admiral

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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by alaricus on Thursday June 02, 2022 @02:15AM (#31591955)
Added to my DNS66 and PiHole, thanks.
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