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Hi I'm the CEO of Optimal, Rob. We use open source lists of adservers but have had to evolve from those lists since some of them are invalid or overly aggressiv

Hi I'm the CEO of Optimal, Rob. We use open source lists of adservers but have had to evolve from those lists since some of them are invalid or overly aggressive. We do not and will never make decisions about what to block based on being paid by any of these companies. We are building a consumer filtering system, and we are responsible to consumers. If you try it out and find any sites that don't work as intended please email us or contact support.

DyslexicAtheist 10y ago
Hi, Will you switch over to a paid service once you're out of beta? Also what's your policy on logging? Below (a probably outdated list of) privacy enhanced servers that don't log. # Swiss Privacy Foundation http://www.privacyfoundation.ch/de/service/server.html 77.109.138.45 77.109.139.29 # www.censurfridns.dk http://www.censurfridns.dk/ 91.239.100.100 89.233.43.71 # CCC http://www.ccc.de/censorship/dns-howto 85.214.20.141 204.152.184.76 194.150.168.168 213.73.91.35 # Comodo Secure DNS https://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/ 8.26.56.26 8.20.247.20 # DNS Watch https://dns.watch/index 84.200.69.80 84.200.70.40 # Fool DNS http://www.fooldns.com/fooldns-community/ 87.118.111.215 # Free DNS http://freedns.zone/ 37.235.1.174 37.235.1.177 take the above list to find the one fastest for you: for i in `cat dns.txt|grep -v '^#'` do qt=`dig @$i techcrunch.com| grep "Query time:" |cut -f2 -d ':'` echo "$i: $qt" done
- optimalrob 10y ago
  We will not - we intend to keep this service free. We hope that some portion of people sign up for our publisher tips, to reward journalists for great content. We take a percentage of they but just as I have publicly said most publishers should NOT block ad blocking users but it's up to them, we hope to provide an optional mechanism for people to pay. Longer term we think a lot of advertising is transformed by software. I wrote about this here - https://medium.com/@robleathern/artificial-intelligence-will-make-advertising-obsolete-72092f0d5093?source=linkShare-5347d57c202a-1469903209 https://medium.com/@robleathern/artificial-intelligence-will...
  - DyslexicAtheist 10y ago
    pretty cool, would probably be good if you mention the non-logging in your ToS or somewhere in an official statement. or by using a warrant canary clause somewhere ... ask them to add you to: https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS
- known 10y ago
  http://wiki.opennicproject.org/ClosestT2Servers http://wiki.opennicproject.org/ClosestT2Servers
- DyslexicAtheist 10y ago
  I assume no statement from their CEO is also kind of a statement.
owly 10y ago
@optimalrob Great work in simplifying ad blocking for all devices. Question, is Optimal working on an option to block adult content as well? OpenDNS Family Shield does an excellent job of this currently for home and school networks. We use it and dnsmasq to block all of the major ad networks. Good luck!
- optimalrob 10y ago
  Open to it - I am very concerned about explicit ads being targeted to kids, but also sites that are not safe for kids. I think we would more likely look to partner with someone who is expert on the family side and they could utilize our ads expertise.

DyslexicAtheist 10y ago

Hi, Will you switch over to a paid service once you're out of beta? Also what's your policy on logging? Below (a probably outdated list of) privacy enhanced servers that don't log. # Swiss Privacy Foundation http://www.privacyfoundation.ch/de/service/server.html 77.109.138.45 77.109.139.29 # www.censurfridns.dk http://www.censurfridns.dk/ 91.239.100.100 89.233.43.71 # CCC http://www.ccc.de/censorship/dns-howto 85.214.20.141 204.152.184.76 194.150.168.168 213.73.91.35 # Comodo Secure DNS https://www.comodo.com/secure-dns/ 8.26.56.26 8.20.247.20 # DNS Watch https://dns.watch/index 84.200.69.80 84.200.70.40 # Fool DNS http://www.fooldns.com/fooldns-community/ 87.118.111.215 # Free DNS http://freedns.zone/ 37.235.1.174 37.235.1.177 take the above list to find the one fastest for you: for i in `cat dns.txt|grep -v '^#'` do qt=`dig @$i techcrunch.com| grep "Query time:" |cut -f2 -d ':'` echo "$i: $qt" done

optimalrob 10y ago
We will not - we intend to keep this service free. We hope that some portion of people sign up for our publisher tips, to reward journalists for great content. We take a percentage of they but just as I have publicly said most publishers should NOT block ad blocking users but it's up to them, we hope to provide an optional mechanism for people to pay. Longer term we think a lot of advertising is transformed by software. I wrote about this here - https://medium.com/@robleathern/artificial-intelligence-will-make-advertising-obsolete-72092f0d5093?source=linkShare-5347d57c202a-1469903209 https://medium.com/@robleathern/artificial-intelligence-will...
- DyslexicAtheist 10y ago
  pretty cool, would probably be good if you mention the non-logging in your ToS or somewhere in an official statement. or by using a warrant canary clause somewhere ... ask them to add you to: https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS
known 10y ago
http://wiki.opennicproject.org/ClosestT2Servers http://wiki.opennicproject.org/ClosestT2Servers
DyslexicAtheist 10y ago
I assume no statement from their CEO is also kind of a statement.

owly 10y ago

@optimalrob Great work in simplifying ad blocking for all devices. Question, is Optimal working on an option to block adult content as well? OpenDNS Family Shield does an excellent job of this currently for home and school networks. We use it and dnsmasq to block all of the major ad networks. Good luck!

optimalrob 10y ago
Open to it - I am very concerned about explicit ads being targeted to kids, but also sites that are not safe for kids. I think we would more likely look to partner with someone who is expert on the family side and they could utilize our ads expertise.