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Using a proxy to do DNS blocking has significant failures modes. They wont work on youtube because youtube uses the same endpoint to serve the videos and ads fo
by HDThoreaun 2y ago
Using a proxy to do DNS blocking has significant failures modes. They wont work on youtube because youtube uses the same endpoint to serve the videos and ads for starters.
- singleshot_ 2y agoNo, not DNS blocking; content parsing and editing before it arrives in the browser. I agree DNS blocking is mostly trash. It's not just youtube/google, but anything that uses Akamai will be pretty hosed too.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoThen the problem is you have to wait for the ping to your proxy/emulator every time you want to run some JS because it needs to run whatever blocking script youve got on the output.