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Re: [Link Posting] Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers

From Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: [Link Posting] Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers
Date 2019-06-19 08:25 +0000
Organization An 8-pin DIL timer IC
Message-ID <qecril$mnn$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)
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On 2019-06-06, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
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>       # ATTENTION: This post is a reference to a website.  The poster of #
>       # this Usenet article is not the author of the referenced website. #
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><URL:https://secarch.dev/posts/plausible-deniability-and-gaslighting-in-
> fighting-ad-blockers/>
>
> The text below is a quotation from the URL above:
>>
>>  Google is planning changes in Chrome impacting ad blocker extensions and
>>  people are wondering whether those changes are motivated by
>>  self-interest or whether there are plausible, benign explanations. In
>>  this post I'll attempt to summarize the background and lay out arguments
>>  for what I think is happening. What is changing
>>
I found a good ad/tracker/malware blocking hosts file here:-
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Placing that in your /etc/ directory redirects all the ad, malware and tracker
addresses to null.  Of course you need to edit in your local settings.
The file is updated regularly so you need to download it periodically. 

An even better option is to run a pi-hole as your local nameserver:-
https://pi-hole.net/
The latter has the advantage of blocking for all computers on the network
including your LAN-connected mobile devices.

DNS-based blocking does have some limitations compared to something like
ublock origin, but it's better than nothing.

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[Link Posting] Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-06 11:14 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-19 08:25 +0000

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