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pi-hole also makes it super easy to block .zip and .mov TLDs.
Don't forget .com which is executable extension.
I use Brave (not so much for the built-in ad block, but mostly because it's not actually Chrome) and I've noticed that more and more sites have ad-block detection that appears to work by sending a unique token to their ad server and then not loading content until after the token has been verified to have been received. I imagine there are ways around this on a per-site basis, it's generally easier to just give in and…
Much better to do so at router level via pihole or Adguard Home. That way it catches the calling home from all the various electronics too
Reminds me of SlashDot where there was a relatively well known submitter that was a huge proponent of host-based ad blocking on Windows and was also a proponent of getting very angry at almost anyone else. (Edit: typo)
heh I made the mistake of engaging with that once. oh boy.... They could not wrap their head around the idea that the hosts method is limited in some use cases. This could not be blocked without blocking the main host too. https://example.com/adverts-folder/advert.jpg Now it sort of works in practice as most of the advert networks do not host on the same domain. It is good at catching out whole bad domains but partia…
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heh I made the mistake of engaging with that once. oh boy.... They could not wrap their head around the idea that the hosts method is limited in some use cases. This could not be blocked without blocking the main host too. https://example.com/adverts-folder/advert.jpg Now it sort of works in practice as most of the advert networks do not host on the same domain. It is good at catching out whole bad domains but partia…
I'm half expecting a torrent of abuse in reply to you now from whoever that was
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Don't forget .com which is executable extension.
I'm not worried about the non-techies being tricked into thinking .com is an executable, I doubt they even know its possible. They almost certainly know about .zips
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Someone explicitly called out and removed the Useless Use of cat but yet left the Useless Uses of grep, sort, and uniq in, I see. (-: * https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award#grep awk '!/#/ { seen[$1]++; } END { for (k in seen) { print seen[k],k; } }' steves_hosts
I love awk as much as the next person and I've written some pretty large scripts with it, but the original grep/sort/uniq is a lot easier to understand in two seconds. I don't think it's "useless" at all. Also your awk isn't exactly identical as it's not sorted, but in this case that probably doesn't matter.