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Yeah, the industry is definitely moving to that. Admiral, probably the most known ad-blocker-blocker already successfully circumvents PiHole and other DNS block

by ratww 4y ago

Yeah, the industry is definitely moving to that. Admiral, probably the most known ad-blocker-blocker already successfully circumvents PiHole and other DNS blocking by being served by the same domain. I also expect Google to double down on Chrome Manifest v3 limitations if ad-blocking keeps getting more popular. Or even using DNS-over-HTTPS as a default on Chrome if ISP blocking ever becomes a thing.

alaricus 4y ago
Do you have pointers on what Admiral is doing? I just remember they tried to get their domains removed from blocklists via DMCA.
- ratww 4y ago
  For most customers, it seems they just went and bought about 2 thousand randomly-named domains and serve third-party scripts. However I've seen a couple places where Admiral was not blocked, because it was being served from a subdomain. I wish I had written down where it was to add to the EasyList or something. :(
  - alaricus 4y ago
    https://github.com/jkrejcha/AdmiraList/blob/master/AdmiraList.txt https://github.com/jkrejcha/AdmiraList/blob/master/AdmiraLis...
    - ratww 4y ago
      That's a good list. This one seems more up to date, apparently the owner is scraping from somewhere: https://github.com/dotspencer/block-admiral https://github.com/dotspencer/block-admiral
      - alaricus 4y ago
        Added to my DNS66 and PiHole, thanks.