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Blocking ads system-wide with DNS filtering (intercept dns requests, block ad and tracking domains) is exactly what AG was doing before the policy shift; and it
by ameshkov 8y ago
Blocking ads system-wide with DNS filtering (intercept dns requests, block ad and tracking domains) is exactly what AG was doing before the policy shift; and it is still able to do it, but now the default blacklist is empty because of Apple.
- danpalmer 8y agoRight. So now it is NOT a VPN ad blocker. It’s an ad blocker using the system frameworks, plus a VPN app that allows finely grained network customisation, one use case of which is ad blocking, but not one that the app itself encourages. That fits my hypothesis.