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Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot

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370 points remuskaos | 3 comments | 22 Jun 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.625s | source
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ricardobeat ◴[22 Jun 25 23:22 UTC] No.44351114[source]▶
Unfortunately there is no way to block websites at the network level (that I know of) as browsers and mobile phones have started using hardcoded DNS resolvers, so the utility of this is limited.
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1. elric ◴[23 Jun 25 07:17 UTC] No.44353258[source]▶
> browsers and mobile phones have started using hardcoded DNS resolvers, so the utility of this is limited

Got a source for that? No phone or browser that I'm aware of uses "hardcoded DNS resolvers". They all use the OS DNS servers which the OS gets from DHCP.

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2. brynx97 ◴[23 Jun 25 12:00 UTC] No.44354881[source]▶
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https

By extension, any application or device could rely on DoH instead of OS-provided or network-provider DNS servers. It is controversial, since it both helps individuals combat ISP or government censorship and also helps bad actors do bad things [1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS#Analysis_of_DNS...

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3. elric ◴[23 Jun 25 12:28 UTC] No.44355093[source]▶
DoH in Firefox is off by default (at least in every FF I've ever installed). And it's not hardcoded to any specific DNS server, you can use whichever provider you like.