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[Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net>]

This is a good point, and I was thinking about this myself. I’m not actually sure how those anti-adblocking sites detect adblocking in the first place. I haven’t run into this issue yet, but if anybody does feel free to send me an email with a link and I’ll see if there’s anything I can do about it. 

Other than that I don’t think there’s any disadvantages, and it’s  probably better than browser extensions from a privacy perspective since nothing gets resolved or downloaded in the first place. 

This is incredibly easy to implement. I doubt we’ll block them by default at the Tier 1 level because it goes against some of our core values of anti-censorship in a way, but it’d be easy for others to setup Tier 2s in a similar manner. 

Jonah

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 7:40 AM Al Beano <albino AT autistici.org> wrote:

One potential disadvantage is that websites with 'anti-adblock' systems
in place might detect that ads won't load and try to force you to
disable your ad-blocker. Because you're blocking ads at the DNS level,
you either have to change your system's default resolver temporarily, or
find some way to work around the ad-blocker detection (I think there are
browser plugins for this, but I haven't had that much success with them
in the past.)

Of course, you could just refuse to use these sites in the first place,
but I understand that's not ideal for most people.

I'm still using an ad-blocking hosts file (which has a similar end
result to this) on my phone and I don't have issues with it often.

albino

On 15/04/18 08:52, Sebastian Makowiecki wrote:
> Excellent. Can you think of any [dis]advantages blocking those cancer
> domains at the dns level? Is this hard to implement?
>
> Ps. These probably schould be blocked by default to make the world a
> better place?
>
> ~
> Sebastian Makowiecki
>
> On 14 April 2018 01:10:22 GMT+01:00, Jonah Aragon
> <jonaharagon AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I'm not sure if this already preexists or is of interest to
>     anybody here, but I've created an adblocking Tier 2 server,
>     hopefully blocking tracking and other invasive behaviors at the
>     DNS level.
>
>     Just decided to advertise it here, because I'm eager for some
>     feedback. Seems to be working well for me personally :)
>
>     IPv4: 167.99.153.82
>     IPv6: 2604:a880:400:d1::2ef:a001
>
>     This server is hosted in New York, NY. If this server is of use to
>     anybody I'll probably run another in a different location, so if
>     anyone has suggestions let me know.
>
>     We're using the following blocklists:
>     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
>     https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains
>     http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts
>     https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist
>     https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt
>     https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt
>     https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
>
>     That's 121,065 domains blocked from resolution.
>
>     If it's of use to anybody here, I'd love to hear it!
>
>     https://servers.opennic.org/edit.php?srv=ns4.ny.us.dns.opennic.glue
>
>     Jonah
>
>
>
>
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