
The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers - desult
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-10/inside-the-brotherhood-of-pi-hole-ad-blockers
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koolba
> Only a few years ago, even people who hated ads saw ad-blocking software as
> akin to stealing.

I've been using ad blockers and NoScript plugins for longer than I can
remember. Before that I was using /etc/hosts file based blocking. I've never
felt like I was stealing nor do I know anyone that feels that way.

On the contrary, I've always felt that content to display, and in particular
code to execute, on my device is my decision and mine alone.

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darawk
Do you not believe that content creators have the right to set the terms upon
which their content may be consumed? In other words, if you write an article,
you don't believe that you have the right to say "you may read this article,
provided that you also display this ad"? If you don't want to see the ad,
simply don't read the article. What makes you think you have the right to the
content, without abiding its terms?

I say this as someone who uses an AdBlocker daily. Of course it's stealing.
You're violating the contract you implicitly agree to when you visit the site.
This may or may not have legal force, but it's _clearly_ stealing. If you
don't want to see ads, don't visit sites that have them. THAT is how you
retain the sanctity of your experience and avoid stealing.

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mikestew
_What makes you think you have the right to the content_

The fact that my web browser received a 200 from the server. Server seemed to
think it's okay to give it to me.

 _You 're violating the contract you implicitly agree to when you visit the
site._

I will once again remind those that pull out this argument that the "implicit
agreement" is that my web browser sends a request, and if the server thinks I
am worthy of viewing the content, it sends said content along with a "200:
everything is A-Okay! Happy to be of service!". If the server thinks me
unworthy, it can send a 403.

If someone wishes to redefine the "implicit agreement", please include a
reference to the relevant RFC. Because otherwise it's just some marketing
person trying to redefine the world the way they wished it were. Should
someone care to redefine the World Wide Web experience such that I do not
control what my browser displays, well, maybe the WWW isn't appropriate for
their business.

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darawk
You seem to think technical implementations matter for some reason. I find
that rather odd. Do you think that someone leaving their front door open
entitles you to the contents of their home?

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danShumway
If they put up a public sign in front of it that says "come on in and take
anything you want" then... kind of.

It's not that access implies consent, it's that the technical standard is the
methodology by which a company grants consent.

The fact that there's ink on a piece of paper is meaningless by itself, but if
it forms my signature on a contract, then it does have meaning. The fact that
I can get to a server is meaningless by itself, but if the server returns a
200, explicitly designated as "yes, you can access this", then that's a
different story.

Of course there are gray areas there. If someone faked my signature, or if
someone accidentally made their server return a 200 code without meaning to or
understanding what they were doing... then fine, I'll concede that they
haven't really offered informed consent.

But that's not the position that any news site is in. No news site is
accidentally returning a 200 code when my computer asks "can I have this
content?"

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darawk
> If they put up a public sign in front of it that says "come on in and take
> anything you want" then... kind of.

Do you believe that putting up a website is the equivalent of that sign?

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danShumway
Yes.

[https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-
stat...](https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-
codes.xml)

It's hard to describe an HTTP status as anything other than a sign. If it was
purely technical, we wouldn't distinguish between 402 (payment required) and
403 (forbidden).[0]

While HTTP status codes can be understood by a machine, they're also designed
to be highly semantic and understandable by humans. I would argue that the
burden is on people who argue that they are not contractual to justify why, in
the same way that I would expect them to justify why a handshake isn't
contractual.

 _Edit: Potentially interesting as well is a semi-recent court ruling about
web scraping[1], where courts effectively ruled that once LinkedIn made their
information public, they couldn 't block web scrapers from accessing that
information, which suggests that the law also agrees with the web community on
this one.

> "But Judge Chen concluded that the issue isn't so simple. When you publish a
> website, you implicitly give members of the public permission to access it,
> he ruled."_

[0]: Although admittedly, nobody really makes much use of 402.

[1]: [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/court-rejects-
li...](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/court-rejects-linkedin-
claim-that-unauthorized-scraping-is-hacking/)

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darawk
> It's hard to describe an HTTP status as anything other than a sign. If it
> was purely technical, we wouldn't distinguish between 402 (payment required)
> and 403 (forbidden).

I agree that the existence of those status codes does a good job at
disambiguating representations of intent regarding payment. However, to my
knowledge, there's no status code that means "Ok, as long as you don't use an
adblocker". As such, any such provision has to be layered on higher up the
stack. The current solution is to put it in the site's terms of service.

That seems pretty equivalent to an HTTP status code, no? I'd argue that you
have contracts simply operating at multiple levels here. All an entity ought
need to do is clearly communicate the terms of access to their interlocutor.
If they have done so, and the client understands the terms, then they should
be bound by them if they proceed.

> Edit: Potentially interesting as well is a semi-recent court ruling about
> web scraping[1], where courts effectively ruled that once LinkedIn made
> their information public, they couldn't block web scrapers from accessing
> that information, which suggests that the law also agrees with the web
> community on this one.

Haha, yes i'm quite familiar with this case, having written a LinkedIn scraper
recently. LinkedIn still does not make this particularly easy, despite being
compelled to by the courts. The nuances the judge seems to have settled on are
a bit interesting. Apparently they're allowed to block access to stuff that
requires you to login to see, but not stuff that doesn't.

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danShumway
> As such, any such provision has to be layered on higher up the stack. The
> current solution is to put it in the site's terms of service.

But the problem is that I never signed that TOS. We keep on coming back to
this, but putting a TOS somewhere on your site is not binding. You need to get
my informed consent. In the same way, if I stuck up a contract on my public
blog that said "by fulfilling any HTTP request I make, you grant me license to
republish your content," I couldn't steal everyone's artwork off of DeviantArt
and claim "well, we did have a contract."

We have a really good solution for this problem - put a 401 (unauthorized)
page in front of your content, which is accurate because the site operator has
decided that someone who hasn't agreed not to block ads is not authorized to
view the content. Then require me to sign the TOS before you authenticate me.

That would be an enforceable contract. Ad blocking is a solved problem for
anyone who's really willing to block requests and require authentication.

Of course, the vast majority of sites don't want to do that because it's
incredibly annoying to the average user. But that's not a problem with the
technology - informed consent is fundamentally annoying to procure in any
context. It will always be more work to get someone to voluntarily agree to a
set of conditions than it will be to just give them something. On the web,
that's just more of a problem because quick, impulsive, uninformed clicks
currently form the majority of web revenue.

So site operators have discovered that it is more profitable _not_ to get
informed consent and just hope that nobody blocks your stuff. The downside is
that you have no TOS to enforce because you never got anybody to agree to it.
But, that's a downside many sites are willing to live with.

The conflict comes when courts rule that the implied contract that users
believe they're agreeing to isn't the terms that ad networks wanted. I find
that often what ad agencies want is to have legally binding implied contracts,
but only in one direction and under terms that they can change at any time.

I'm all for contract law, but if it's the users responsibility to understand a
site's TOS before they request information, shouldn't it also be the site's
responsibility to understand a user's TOS and intent before they fulfill a
request?

That's what web authentication does. It gives sites the opportunity to form a
contract with a user, and to tell users who don't want to form a contract
"sorry, but we have conditions before you view this."

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darawk
> But the problem is that I never signed that TOS. We keep on coming back to
> this, but putting a TOS somewhere on your site is not binding. You need to
> get my informed consent. In the same way, if I stuck up a contract on my
> public blog that said "by fulfilling any HTTP request I make, you grant me
> license to republish your content," I couldn't steal everyone's artwork off
> of DeviantArt and claim "well, we did have a contract."

Yep. Totally agree. Consent needs to be informed. In order for anything i'm
saying to apply, the agreement must be meaningfully made. Personally, I
consider a checkbox saying "I won't use an ad blocker" to be sufficient to
declare that agreement valid.

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gruez
Is it me, or is pi hole way more popular than it should be? Compared to the
alternatives, it's worse in almost every way. It only works on your local
network, so good luck blocking ads while you're at work, using mobile data, or
at a cafe. Browser based adblockers (which is available on most desktop
browsers, mobile safari, and firefox for android) can block elements and url
patterns, pi hole can't. Even if you're on a browser that can't use adblock
(mostly android), you can still use VPN based adblockers (the ones that
reroute your traffic through a local VPN), which work regardless of what
network you're on. And worst of all, all of the alternatives are free, which
can't be said for pi hole[1].

[1] I know you can run pi hole on your desktop OS, which is technically free,
but you need to leave your computer on 24/7 which undoubtedly raises your
electricity bill.

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FreeKill
Pi Hole is free, unless you're counting the system you have to run it off of
(like a raspberry pi) but you can run it off any device you want like a
virtual machine at home for instance, so you only need to buy a Raspberry Pi
if that's how you intend to operate it. The benefit of it, is it blocks a lot
more than just ads. For instance, it blocks any attempts to "phone home" by my
smart TV or by applications I use such as Nvidia Geforce Experience. It's more
extensive than browser based ad blockers because it works for your entire
network, not just web browsing (for example, blocks all youtube ads on my un-
rooted mobile device). It also has a huge set of customizable community
maintained block lists that block everything from simple ads all the way to
pornography (if that's what you want).

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FreeKill
Here's an example of some of the community maintained lists you can use to
block more things easily.
[https://wally3k.github.io/](https://wally3k.github.io/) Many of these are
updated quite frequently as well.

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ulzeraj
I run a similar setup that downloads the blacklist from some guy named Steven
Black who wants to make the internet better and then I pipe it through sed to
include them on my unbound resolver. The file is configured as an include on
unbound.conf.

#!/bin/sh

PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin"

rm -f /tmp/badsites

wget
[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts)
-O /tmp/badsites

if [ -f /tmp/badsites ]; then

    
    
        grep '^0\.0\.0\.0' /tmp/badsites | awk '{print "local-zone: \""$2"\" redirect\nlocal-data: \""$2" A 0.0.0.0\""}' > /etc/unbound/badsites.conf
      
        rm /tmp/badsites
      

fi

rc-service unbound reload

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rb808
Surely the next step is for websites to host their own ads again? They can
even forward cookies on to ad networks etc.

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tobltobs
Would be great if this would be an option, especially with the GDPR coming.
But for small to medium sized publishers there are no ads you could host your
own.

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orwin
This is simply not true. i spoke two years ago with the CEO of a small
publisher company (~3 employees). This company was focused on mobility, from
train to skateboard, with cars being obviously the main focus. Affiliated
links for small stuff like electric monocycles and/or sponsored tests for cars
was enough to pay himself, his author, IT guy and tester.

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djhworld
I've been running a Pi-Hole instance for about a year now, it's excellent. I
could never get it to work with my router, but manually configuring the DNS on
my devices to point to it works just as well.

One thing that became immediately apparent was how much faster browsing the
web got after I turned it on.

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vanadium
Been running it myself for 5-6 months, and other than the occasional
(actually, very rare) complaint from the Mrs. that a link she clicked won't go
through due to a blocked tracker/analytics intermediary, it's been a peachy
time VPNing into our home network so it works just as well on the go.

Our install Pi-Hole points its upstream DNS to 1.1.1.1, with uBlock Origin
where possible installed on our devices. Can't imagine going back.

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xenophonf
What advantage is there in using 1.1.1.1 instead of your own DNS resolver?

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a1369209993
Some ISP-provided resolvers fraudulently replace NXDOMAIN responses with
NOERROR IN As pointing to (ironically, in this context) advertisment sites.

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xenophonf
I'm aware of the problems with ISP-provided resolvers. I meant running your
own resolver, like named, which queries the root zones itself, supports DNSSEC
response authentication, etc.

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a1369209993
In that case: local resolvers involve actually installing and configuring a
recursive dns server, which isn't everyone's idea of fun, whereas 1.1/8.8.8.8
can be set up with a one line config file edit and then forgotten about.

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crunchlibrarian
I wonder if the backlash against advertising and social and the web more
generally will lead to more people buying these sorts of devices to try and
own their own networks and information again. Surely the cloud providers and
the platforms will suffer in this shift.

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bxio
Ever since I was given my first computer and was allowed on the internet, I've
had NoScript and Adblock installed.

I installed a Pi-hole last week, totally worth. Best amount of time and money
I've spent so far this year.

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thejrk
Here it is! That comment that makes you feel old!

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cdancette
I think we are slowly gaining consciousness about the danger of ads. It's
really pernicious but I think has overall terrible effects on people (self
estime, food / alcohol consumption...). And not just ads, but also product
placement in movies / TV shows.

I think it's terrible for our health and our minds.

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vertexFarm
Ads aren't innocent anymore. As technology gets better they are getting far,
far more persuasive. It's gonna get weird once it hits a crucial threshold of
effectiveness and basically make public opinion counterfeit.

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darkkindness
> Publishers will target Salmela’s software if it becomes anywhere near as
> popular as AdBlock Plus, says Nicole Perrin, an analyst at researcher
> EMarketer.

I'd caution about that claim. Google pulled AdNauseam[0], a uBlock Origin
extension, from the Chrome Web Store since it was fundamentally disrupting
Google's business model via click fraud. (It automates clicking ads in order
to create noise in user tracking.) This was far, far before it became as
popular as AdBlock Plus.

PiHole takes an even more aggressive stance against ads, blackholing entire
networks. It poses as much as a threat to the ad industry as AdNauseam. So I'd
wager that PiHole will get shut down long before it reaches the popularity of
AdBlock Plus.

[0]: [https://adnauseam.io/](https://adnauseam.io/)

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lapnitnelav
I disagree with you :

1) Unlike AdNauseam, Google can't do much to get in the way of Pi-Hole. This
isn't within its ecosystem.

2) Actually, while it's not great for publishers, it's not that disruptive (at
that scale) because it doesn't impact the advertiser's ad spend. No request >
No charge.

Now if you wanted to create something that would be quite disruptive, you'd
need to combine the 2, with a twist :

You could have a headless browser in a VM (for safety) that makes some of
those calls and mimic a click + follow the redirect + stay on the landing page
and browse another N pages.

Not every single ad obviously because that'd be easy to detect but at random,
in an erratic way. That'd be like simulating an actual user.

Throw in there some cookie dropping / reset to mess with tracking and it could
have some pretty interesting effects.

The reason why it'd more dangerous? Because it'd throw off performance of
those ads and ML optimizations done by various vendors. Usually you expect a
click-through rate (CTR) of 0.X % to maybe 2-3% and similarly an actual
conversion rate in the single digits.

On a large scale, you'd see a a CTR that either go up or stay on par, but a
conversion rate that is free falling and that would have some serious
consequences for both the advertiser's marketing team and the publisher / ad
network.

Take it one step further and have a TOR like network of those pi-holes taking
care of that both to prevent device finger-printing and maybe coordinating a
specific publisher / ad network / advertisers and you could see that
advertiser looking at reducing its ad spend quite drastically when performance
goes down the drain. And an ad network / publisher having to do some
explaining.

Some kind of "activist" bot network to force specific advertisers to reduce ad
spending or simply occur costs.

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darkkindness
1) This is true. Though, AdNauseam was originally a Firefox extension and is
still available on Firefox. You can still install it on Chrome from source.
Maybe I was too strong saying it was 'shut down' \-- I was more referring to
the fact that action has already been taken against AdNauseam when it was
still small. I'm curious for when Pi-Hole gets the same kind of treatment.

2) If the goal (of PiHole and other ad/tracking blockers) is to encourage a
subscription model over an advertising model for publishers, I'd argue that
making ads ineffective for publishers is much more important than directly
attacking advertisers' profits. Without publishers willing to host ads,
advertisers will lose anyways.

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jordigh
> people who had an objection to capitalism in principle,

Yes, citizens, watch your daily dose of ads or else the economy crumbles! For
the good of capitalism, watch ads, citizens, watch ads!

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cfadvan
_Resume Viewing_

Gotta earn those 15 million credits!

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ch4s3
Does anyone know if there are performance penalties associated with using a
Raspberry PI as your DNS server?

Also, a link[1] to the Pi-Hole page.

[1][https://pi-hole.net/](https://pi-hole.net/)

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craftyguy
Slightly off-topic, but from the pi-hole page:

> Install by running one command:

> curl -sSL [https://install.pi-hole.net](https://install.pi-hole.net) | bash

installing arbitrary software off the internet by piping curl output to bash
is a terrible idea. At the very least, I would have expected them to sign this
script... considering this software has unlimited access to your internal
network, and the ability to influence ALL network traffic into/out of your
internal network.

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iamatworknow
Immediately below that line on the pi-hole site:

>Our code is completely open, but piping to bash can be dangerous. For a safer
install, review the code and then run the installer locally.

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craftyguy
And yet piping to bash is being advertised boldly as the 'one-liner install
process'

In other news, eating rat poison might kill you, but there's a tiny warning
printed on the back so no one will do ever do it.

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alkonaut
What people do to install software 98% of the time is download a proprietary
windows binary and executing it - occasionally also with elevated privileges.

Piping to bash is dangerous but it’s not _more_ dangerous than software
installation in general. I think this point is some times lost on e.g people
who run software from vetted repositories like apt or often make their open
source apps from source. Computer programs to most people means double
clicking an exe.

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craftyguy
> What people do to install software 98% of the time is download a proprietary
> windows binary and executing it

Not people who avoid Windows. Every respectable Linux distro has package
signing by default these days. And none support a default install process of
piping arbitrary scripts from the internet to a shell.

There's no reason the pi-hole folks, who made a thing that runs on Linux, to
ignore the security implications and recommend something dangerous for a
device with a lot of potential power.

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snake_plissken
Pi-Hole is different from using a hosts file in that, Pi-Hole returns 200 OK
with empty content for any requests to the black-listed domains?

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gruez
how does that work with https?

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64kbisalluneed
Just install nginx that answers to http and https and return empty gif or 204.

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Chaebixi
Would that fail because your sever can't provide the right cert? You'd
probably have to install a custom root certificate on your machines that you
https ad blocker could use to forge certs.

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64kbisalluneed
Yes, custom cert has to be used, otherwise browsing could be very annoying.

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yuhong
My essay focuses on Google and DoubleClick specifically:
[http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-
mozi...](http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozilla-
essay-final.html)

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blueseaadmin
Would it not be possible to code either an add on or even a proxy server that
"accepts" the ads, but sends them to /dev/null while serving up a "clean"
rendering of a page? I'm sure this can be done.

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verdverm
I run grimd (alternative) in the cloud. Then I can point my router and dns app
at it when I'm out and about.

The setup needs upgrading for DNS over https and maybe run it in Kubernetes?

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dfee
Found it: [https://github.com/looterz/grimd](https://github.com/looterz/grimd)

Questions:

1) is this black hole concept sustainable? Or, does it require significant
management, and is likely to be circumvented by serving content through a
proxy anyway?

2) Why do you run this on the cloud? Don’t you then incur significant
bandwidth costs? Or, if DNS only are there speed issues with your EC2 instance
lagging?

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tannhaeuser
Personally I have no problems with ads _per se_ , it's the tracking, privacy,
and security aspect I'm concerned about (and also the unbelievable bloatedness
of ad-financed sites lately as ad prices race to the bottom). Personally I'd
be fine with ads if we could go back to a content-oriented model where first-
party static assets are served as ads rather than the targeted advertising we
have now. I know others here who have zero tolerance for any kind of ads,
though. Trying to grasp what a feasible business model for content creation
could be, including paywalled content/micropayments as almost anything seems
better than the clickbait and brainwash crap we have now.

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mikestew
_it 's the tracking, privacy, and security aspect I'm concerned about_

And that's what ads are, _per se_ , in the 21st century. "Ads", as the current
implementation defines it from my perspective, are no longer general-purpose
and static. No, they chase you around the web and then for weeks will try to
sell you the thing you _just_ purchased. They'll load random executable code
onto your machine. I, too, have no problem with a static JPG at the top of the
screen, but that hasn't been what ads are in over a decade.

Now the counter-argument would be, "but TV and print ads are not like that, so
not _all_ ads." Okay, fair argument though that might be, it's only because TV
and print can't, and it's not for lack of trying. Print had the CueCat[0], TV
has tried (and mostly failed), but those Samsung TVs are looking pretty creepy
from what I'm reading.

So to me, it's like saying, "I don't have a problem with authoritarian
governments per se, it's all of the spying, control of the citizenry, and
propaganda I have a problem with." Well, that kind of defines an authoritarian
government, ergo...

Anyway, I'm just being pedantic. Load up those ad blockers, and get Pi-hole
running.

[0]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat)

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ggg9990
And websites can sell static JPG ads that are impossible to block.

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dredmorbius
s/impossible/harder/

One of the first adblock tools I used relied on thevstandard sizes of banner
ads to blok them.

Names of selectors, XPATH, explicit element whitelisting, denying all image
content, etc, all are possible options.

On desktop I apply a pretty rigorous set of CSS customisations against
numerous sites.

Plus the usual adblocking.

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bscphil
Are you thinking of Privoxy? I have good memories of using it - it was perhaps
the second open source program I ever used after Firefox and really got me
into coding in general because of how configurable it was.

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vsviridov
PiHole really needs to have a local DNS-over-HTTPS bridge. In some countries
upstream providers do DNS poisoning for censorship purposes.

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corrigible
Something like this[0]?

[0]: [https://bendews.com/posts/implement-dns-over-
https/](https://bendews.com/posts/implement-dns-over-https/)

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textmode
"Alternative To /etc/hosts

You don't have to use the hosts file (or addn-hosts ), but performance starts
to suffer once the list of domains gets past 120,000.

jacobsalmela says: June 24, 2015 at 06:53

It's partially due to the amount of domains on the lists controlled by the
other sites. ~120,000 seemed to be the sweet spot. Once it got higher than
that, the hosts format performed better. But a faster SD card can make a
difference..."

[https://jacobsalmela.com/2015/06/16/block-millions-ads-
netwo...](https://jacobsalmela.com/2015/06/16/block-millions-ads-network-wide-
with-a-raspberry-pi-hole-2-0/)

The "list of domains" here is a list of domains to which the user does not
want her computer to connect.

The author is suggesting list sizes over 120,000 begin to trigger performance
issues, using this dnsmasq-based approach.

What about another "list of domains" that comprises all the ones to which the
user does want to connect.

Would it be more or less than 120,000?

For over 15 years I have been running authoritative nameservers on the local
network, using tinydns and later nsd, including a custom root.

cdb, the key-value store used in tinydns, on its own is useful for storing
domain->ipaddr mappings. I can store lists up to 4GB.

If I understand correctly, the rough equivalent in Pi-Hole is perhaps serving
/etc/hosts or some other list of hosts via dnsmasq. (I believe pdns_recursor
can also serve /etc/hosts if I recall correctly.)

IME, controlling both /etc/hosts and authoritative DNS has made it very easy
to block ads since they almost always rely on DNS.

However I use authoritative DNS as a substitute for recursive DNS.

/etc/resolv.conf lists authoritative nameservers, not resolvers.

As such, DNS is primarily used not to _block_ but to _selectively permit_. (To
build the zonefiles, I use a separate method for "prefetching" needed IP
address in bulk that does not use recursive DNS. It has worked beautifully for
over 15 years. On the local network I have encrypted DNS lookups via
authoritative queries to CurveDNS-proxied authoritative nameservers; no
recursive resolvers are needed.)

Foregoing recursive DNS, the approach is similar to a firewall ruleset where
the default is to block everything. The user then adds specific rules to allow
desired traffic (or in this case domain resolutions).

In other words, the approach I chose was to determine what domains I _wanted
to access_ instead of trying to identify every possible domain that _needed to
be blocked_. Every domain is blocked by default until I allow it.

Although I have no need for Pi-Hole personally I would like to see it succeed.
I am glad to see that other users taking an interest in DNS.

The reason I ask the question about the size of the "allow" domain list is
that over 15 years I am not even close to reaching 120,000 domains. I wonder
how many domains other users visit.

To rephrase the question again: If there are two lists of domains: 1. all the
domains to which the user wants to allow and 2. all the domains she wants to
block, then which is the larger list?

The answer will vary from one user to another.

