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DNS-based ad blocking server

3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2016-07-29 · latest 2018-09-26

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  1. I was experimenting with a somewhat similar idea a few years ago, https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns . I took the most recent block lists that uBlock Origin was using at the time and filtered out all the css-based selectors to just get the…
    comment by geuis · 2018-09-26 · in Mmm, Pi-hole
  2. …though. As an experiment a while back I wrote a simple dns server that blocked ad-related domains. https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns . While it technically worked, it made using the web almost non functional. Nearly every site was broken…
    comment by geuis · 2017-03-13 · in Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
  3. I experimented with this idea back in March, https://github.com/geuis/lead-dns It turns out to be a pretty bad experience. There are tons and tons of legit domains that serve normal content that also serve ads. I used a subset of urls from…
    comment by geuis · 2016-07-29 · in Optimal DNS Ad Blocker