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That's very comprehensive. I wonder if you could circumvent the hosts method by rotating through unique subdomains as your ads server. My understanding is that
by martin-adams 8y ago
That's very comprehensive.
I wonder if you could circumvent the hosts method by rotating through unique subdomains as your ads server. My understanding is that you can't wildcard the hosts file.
- move-on-by 8y agoYes, hosts do not support wildcards. There are some solutions to blocking advertisers that use tricks like you suggest. A PiHole is able to do wildcard blocking. Also, uBlock Origin (which accepts host formatted lists) will automatically block any subdomain of a blocked root. So as long as the parent domain is also blocked, any subdomains would also be included