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I experimented with this idea back in March, https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns It turns out to be a pretty bad experience. Th
by geuis 10y ago
I experimented with this idea back in March, https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns
It turns out to be a pretty bad experience. There are tons and tons of legit domains that serve normal content that also serve ads. I used a subset of urls from a popular ad blocking list (https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns/blob/master/lists/easyprivacy%2Beasylist.txt https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns/blob/master/lists/easypriv...).
After only a few hours, using the web normally was near impossible. Just a very broken experience. Sadly, since you can't pass a path to a dns server, there's no finer-grained way to allow certain requests to a domain to go through and block others.
- josho 10y agoI've been using DNS to filter out the worst offenders. I don't mind most ads, so my list of domains is quite small. But, I've found it to be an effective tool. I agree, however, that anytime a site is broken that I'm left wondering if I'm responsible because I've inadvertently blocked a CDN or something important.