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Late to the party. Trackers are now moving to A records instead of just CNAMES just because blockers were already emerging.
by delfinom 7y ago
Late to the party. Trackers are now moving to A records instead of just CNAMES just because blockers were already emerging.
- poitrus 7y agoSource? A records are blockable the same way, it wouldn’t buy them anything here.
- t3f 7y agoIf it is true it would buy ad servers greater obfuscation since blockers were relying on CNAME metadata to differentiate between safe and unsafe targets. If more reverse lookup and secondary metadata and vhost dereferencing is required it will complicate performant ad stripping at a minimum. [0] https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/apply-pi-hole-blocking-to-cnames/25445/95 https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/apply-pi-hole-blocking-to-cn... [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/780#issuecomment-552971940 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/780#iss...