▲ 964 ▼ Block your ads (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world [M] to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 38 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) That doesn't work with https ad though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago (1 child) It does, dns happens before the request to the server happens. So instead of connecting to the ad-server the dns says 'the resource you're looking for doesn't exist' and the ad never loads. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* I'm sleep deprived and can't for the life of me decipher, what I meant there 😀. But I feel I have meant something There's another problem yet: a lot of ads nowadays use the main domain of the site as the source. So you can't block it without blocking the site as a whole. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago (1 child) It does, dns happens before the request to the server happens. So instead of connecting to the ad-server the dns says 'the resource you're looking for doesn't exist' and the ad never loads. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* I'm sleep deprived and can't for the life of me decipher, what I meant there 😀. But I feel I have meant something There's another problem yet: a lot of ads nowadays use the main domain of the site as the source. So you can't block it without blocking the site as a whole. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* I'm sleep deprived and can't for the life of me decipher, what I meant there 😀. But I feel I have meant something There's another problem yet: a lot of ads nowadays use the main domain of the site as the source. So you can't block it without blocking the site as a whole. permalink fedilink source parent
