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1957 points apokryptein | 1 comments | 02 Feb 25 17:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source

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anurag ◴[02 Feb 25 20:04 UTC] No.42911300[source]▶

I'm a very happy paying customer of NextDNS (https://nextdns.io) which blocks known adware and tracking hosts across all mobile and desktop platforms.

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Argonaut998 ◴[02 Feb 25 20:45 UTC] No.42911631[source]▶

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Facebook hard-code IP addresses when their domains are blocked. I found this out while using NextDNS alongside that logging functionality that iPhones have. It’s insane the lengths that they go to.

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1. ignoramous ◴[03 Feb 25 02:16 UTC] No.42914216[source]▶

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> Facebook hard-code IP addresses when their domains are blocked

Sounds like an anti-censorship or a generic connectivity robustness feature [0]? WhatsApp and Instagram do this, too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41959945

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