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Re:In June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be d... by coreyog on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @11:36AM (#38365956)
They literally said that since at least January of this year: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/google-chrome-upgrade-planned...

They know it's anti-consumer. They see that the YouTube push is actually causing people to install more, smarter ad blockers. I myself have finally got around to setting up pihole. "We're serious, by 2027 your adblocker will be toast" whatever, if you think we're still using the browser to block ads, you grossly misunderstood your userbase.

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Re:In June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be d... by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:12PM (#38367550)
can pihole block ads as effectively as ublock origin?
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Re:In June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be d... by CommanderData on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:35PM (#38368816)
It's DNS level adblocking, so no.

E.g. If sites used a hardcoded IP address, pihole will be useless. Same applies if devices such as TVs use their own DNS/DNS over TLS.

Sort of see IP + DNS blocking catching on next once pihole becomes ineffective.

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Re:In June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be d... by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:31PM (#38369634)
that's what I thought but I don't use pihole so thought it might be effective somehow.
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Re:In June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be d... by Kubuxu on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:36PM (#38367982)
No, it can't, as it primarily supports only domain blocking.
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