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Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by NoGravitas on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:13AM (#43204758)
DNS based blocking is a good front-line, but in my experience, it's not sufficient on the modern web.
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Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by ethagnawl on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:11PM (#43207931)
I can't say I understand why that would be the case -- probably naivete on my part. Are browser/JS apps loading ads via proxies or websockets or something? Is uBlock Origin somehow able to intercept those?
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Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other exte... by Henchman21 on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:36PM (#43209422)
IIRC, Firefox at least has its own DNS-over-HTTPS client configured out of the box? So they aren’t using your DNS servers at all?
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