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> So this means that the ad blocker will query "definitely-not-an-ad-subdomain.dastx.me" and realize that it actually points to "terribleads.adgiant.com", right?

Yeah, uBlock Origin recently added a new permission request just to allow that.



From my understanding, it only works in Firefox and not Chrome though as an FYI.


Correct. Chrome doesn't have such mechanism and if I'm not mistaken, they've already shot down the idea of adding this API.




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