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Thank you Raymond Hill (programming.dev)

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[-] [email protected] 212 points 2 months ago

It's kinda sad that without Mozilla, Raymond, the NoScript guys and TOR we would lose control over the internet pretty much immediately

[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago

Kind of agree. Though there is pi-hole and several others. And there's i2p, Freenet (now called Hyphanet) and GNUnet, and similar.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago

Pi-hole is nice for devices that you don't fully control. But it's not enough, due to the fundamental limitations of DNS based blocking. If the ads and the content are hosted on the same domain, it can't do anything.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also issues with links that get ads on top of them. You can still click them, you'll get redirected to a blank page (because the ad gets DNS blocked), but with an adblocker you would've gone to the non-ad link.

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