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552 points freedomben | 1 comments | 11 Oct 24 14:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source
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greenie_beans ◴[11 Oct 24 15:00 UTC] No.41810078[source]▶
can i just setup dns blocking on my network to block the ad requests? especially on youtube, ublock origin stopped working a few weeks ago.
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1. sunshowers ◴[11 Oct 24 18:59 UTC] No.41812359[source]▶
So yes... but the issue with DNS blocking is in the exceptions.

First, exceptions are at the domain level. So you can't say "allow this domain on this site", you have to blanket-allow a domain or not.

Second, the UX for making exceptions isn't great. With uBO it's just a couple of clicks. With something like Pi-hole it's more complex: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-whitelist-or-blackl...