alt Hacker Newscan i just setup dns blocking on my network to block the ad requests? especially on youtube, ublock origin stopped working a few weeks ago.
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WesolyKubeczek • 10/11/2024
Not enough, especially since your browser may weasel out of it by using its own DNS via DoH.
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So yes... but the issue with DNS blocking is in the exceptions.
First, exceptions are at the domain level. So you can't say "allow this domain on this site", you have to blanket-allow a domain or not.
Second, the UX for making exceptions isn't great. With uBO it's just a couple of clicks. With something like Pi-hole it's more complex: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-whitelist-or-blackl...