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Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim(twitter.com)
586 points by ameshkov 7y ago|217 comments
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by ameshkov 7y ago
I have to disagree. Passively staying does not change anything; the fact that they work for this company has not prevented this initiative.
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by ameshkov 7y ago
So you'd suggest staying and fighting against this inside the company? If they truly love the company and it deserves this, you might be right. edit: what bothers me is that at least by some senior staff members these employees are alr
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by ameshkov 7y ago
If I was a Chinese or a Russian engineer working for Gitlab, I'd consider quitting right now regardless of how this discussion ends. I am surprised that this initiative is not just considered by them, but basically approved by some of
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Gitlab Makes a U-Turn(theregister.co.uk)
39 points by ameshkov 7y ago|24 comments
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by ameshkov 7y ago
> Would you happen to know why AdGuard's IP addresses point to Russia The link shows the owner of the AS, not the location of the servers. The IP address itself belongs to an AS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au
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by ameshkov 7y ago
> The AdGuard app does use AdGuard's DNS servers Well, no it does not if you don't explicitly choose AdGuard DNS among other DNS servers. It filters everything locally. > through their servers in Russia I see no servers in R
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by ameshkov 7y ago
There's new AG for Safari: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari
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by ameshkov 7y ago
A local VPN running on your device which code you can examine on Github: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForiOS
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by ameshkov 7y ago
https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158
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by ameshkov 7y ago
Regarding AdGuard being discontinued, this might have just changed: https://twitter.com/AdGuard/status/1135660616679645185
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by ameshkov 7y ago
Consider trying AdGuard Home as well: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome
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AdGuard Pro for iOS is back thanks to the new App Store guidelines update(twitter.com)
6 points by ameshkov 7y ago|0 comments
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by ameshkov 7y ago
I don't think our discussion can come to any compromise. You seem to believe that not doing anything is a good thing, and the API is already ideal. I have a different opinion. Well, it's okay to have different opinions.
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by ameshkov 7y ago
> Well it all depends what the requests are, doesn’t it. Oh, there are all sorts of them. From simple feature requests (like being able to distinguish fetch/xmlhttprequest) and bug reports (like that it considers requests to subdoma
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by ameshkov 7y ago
> I can appreciate that uBlock Origin wants to be a universal condom that works on every website for everyone, but I also don't think it's so damning if the content blocker API is sufficient for that. Yet uBlock Origin and its
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by ameshkov 7y ago
So you are telling me that not changing the API in years despite numerous requests is a good thing? Well, I disagree. Regarding https, this change was made in 2015.
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by ameshkov 7y ago
Adblock circumvention is a technique when a website reinjects and encrypts the ads when it detects that they were blocked. Kinda like what Facebook does. Most of the changes and improvements to modern ad blockers are to deal with this kind
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by ameshkov 7y ago
Safari content blocking API is abandoned since 2015 when it was introduced. It simply does not allow using advanced blocking techniques which were developed by Chrome/FF blockers during these years. It might be enough to handle most of
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AdGuard Home v0.93: DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS Support Out-of-the-Box(github.com)
2 points by ameshkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by ameshkov 8y ago
Well, it is not that similar. DNS66 is just a DNS changer/filter, AdGuard is a full-scale traffic filter and firewall: https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-vs-adaway-dns66/
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by ameshkov 8y ago
You might want to checkout AdGuard Home if you want to run it on your own server or in your own network: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome Notable differences between it and Pi-Hole: 1. Easy to set up and use.
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by ameshkov 8y ago
I guess the encrypted SNI draft is what's meant here.
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by ameshkov 8y ago
Here is a short FAQ 1. Where is the code? Here it is: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome 2. Pi-hole? Pi-hole is awesome! Actually, before AdGuard Home launch it was the only viable option. Now you have a choice
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Show HN: AdGuard Home – an open source network-wide ad blocker(adguard.com)
6 points by ameshkov 8y ago|2 comments
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by ameshkov 8y ago
> How would they do this if you never visit the site or download the app? Facebook SDK is used in more than 40% of mobile apps. Devs do it for analytics and ads. The feature is called Facebook Audience Network.
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by ameshkov 8y ago
According to Malwarebytes (they got banned too), server-side or client-side does not matter: https://twitter.com/thomasareed/status/1021095129279541249
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Google is removing Chrome extensions inline installation API(theverge.com)
3 points by ameshkov 8y ago|0 comments
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by ameshkov 8y ago
Blocking ads system-wide with DNS filtering (intercept dns requests, block ad and tracking domains) is exactly what AG was doing before the policy shift; and it is still able to do it, but now the default blacklist is empty because of Apple
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by ameshkov 8y ago
There is no misinformation about it. Apple has made it clear to the system-wide blockers developers that this was happening because of ad blocking. There are still a lot of apps using the VPN API for additional purposes. For instance, AdGua

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