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It's almost criminal that the article does not mention network-wide DNS blocklists as an obvious solution to this problem. I stop nearly 100% of ads in their t
by drnick1 7mo ago
It's almost criminal that the article does not mention network-wide DNS blocklists as an obvious solution to this problem. I stop nearly 100% of ads in their tracks using the Hagezi ultimate list, and run uBlock on desktop for cosmetic filtering and YouTube.
I should really run some to tests to figure out how much lighter the load on my link is thanks to the filter.
I also manually added some additional domains (mostly fonts by Google and Adobe) to further reduce load and improve privacy.
- hilbert42 7mo ago"…how much lighter the load on my link is thanks to the filter." Not done any rigorous tests but my experience has been rhat it can be lower than a tenth.
- int_19h 7mo agoIt does indeed work pretty well today, but they have already developed ways to circumvent it. For example, serving ads from the same domain as the main page.
- drnick1 7mo agoAFAIK, YouTube has been doing that for years and uBlock has consistently adapted. It's also easier for Google to do that since it owns the ad network and doesn't need to verify ad prints are legitimate and not inflated by the third party that displays them.
- int_19h 7mo agoThe point is that you still need uBlock, this can't be done via DNS filtering. I expect this kind of stuff to become more common in the future if adblocker usage grows. It might be CDNs doing that, too.