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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
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[–] dejf@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why shouldn't you let your browser use DNS over HTTPS?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because then it can bypass your ad-blocking DNS

DNS over HTTPS was a great idea for privacy if left in your hands, but immediately ran into the reality of intrusive advertising

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Because dns ad blocking is typically done with something like dnsmasq which doesn't support DNS over HTTPS, though it's easy enough to setup a resolver/forwarder that does