The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer

Re:The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer by rdsubhas on Friday June 13, 2025 @09:04AM (#44268150)

Living in Germany, one of the things about DNS-level adblocking is: It SILENTLY obstructs a lot of the payback, reward and coupon programs.

For example, the biggest country-wide payback program is payback.de, and their most of their coupon multiplier links here – https://www.payback.de/coupons/info – will be clickable, but silently not work after you purchase.

Adblocking is good, but I prefer when it's controlled and I can just open an incognito window or disable it temporarily when I need them, for whatever reason.

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Re:The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer by Eduard on Friday June 13, 2025 @10:42AM (#44268964)

> For example, the biggest country-wide payback program is payback.de, and their most of their coupon multiplier links here – https://www.payback.de/coupons/info – will be clickable, but silently not work after you purchase.

I don't understand this claim. Payback coupons have to be activated before purchase, so even if somehow that link wouldn't work anymore after a purchase it'd be too late anyway to have the coupon applied.

Can you elaborate or provide links for more information?

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Re:The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer by cyberbolt23 on Friday June 13, 2025 @09:15AM (#44268237)

Then use a browser adblocker that you can disable when needed.

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