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Re:Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser usi... by Eisenstein on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:27AM (#36725380)
It breaks DNS based blocking if you have it setup. Some people setup ad-blocking so that it encompasses their entire network and the way this works is that it silently drops DNS requests to ad domains on the edge of your local network.
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