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"What's and adblocker" - my Grandma. Well, you know a phone book? And, you know how if you want to phone someone, you tend to look up their number in a phone
by b112 5y ago
"What's and adblocker" - my Grandma.
Well, you know a phone book? And, you know how if you want to phone someone, you tend to look up their number in a phone book?
"Yes"
Well, computers are the same. They only know numbers, they're computers after all, and DNS maps the names you see for websites, to numbers, so computers can find the website.
"Uh, OK"
The adblocker I am going to install, makes it impossible for the computer to see the numbers for advetisers. It can't find them in its phone book any more. So, no ads!
Now grandma understands how DNS works, and what some adblockers do.
Some things are not as technically complex as we think they are.
- warent 5y agoMaps names of websites? I don't know what that means. Timmy showed me The Amazon and the egg cooker from there worked wonderfully so I don't want an ad blocker.
- b112 5y agoGranmda knew what it meant. She'd been looking up names in the phonebook here whole life, mapping them to numbers. Been doing the same thing for lots of paper databases, like address books, and been using indexes in books too. Not to mention, how the library indexed books in her day. Zero confusion about DNS after I explained urls to her. None.