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[–] porksoda@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

while showing how many users they forced into their app where ad blocking is harder.

Laughs in DNS-level blocking

[–] drasticpotatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago

Me too, except along with ads I also blocked Reddit and many other trash websites.

[–] flumph@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah. I use DNS-level blocking too, but it's not something I can roll out to my non-technical family members. They understand turning off the browser extension if things don't work, but not adding a DNS whitelist and then waiting / clearing DNS.

[–] ARk@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

harder not impossible