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  • RemeJuan
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    11 year ago

    Ive been using DNS filtering for years and many sites actually collapse the advert space when it’s not used, and while a plug-in certainly can improve the UI, the DNS blocking also disables the resulting tracking, the network requests still happen with the plugins.

    Additionally DNS filtering happens outside of a browser as well, so will block ads in literally every app as well, when setup correctly it’s also device independent.

    When I still ran my own PiHole, there where days where as much as 60% of the traffic was adverts and trackers.

    DNS filtering also extends to blocking things like malware and spam domains