• ftbd@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    FYI for those using DNS-based adblocking: I discovered that my AndroidTV box asks 8.8.8.8 when my local DNS server blocks a request.

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      13 hours ago

      I always have issues with dns blocking so I tried something sneaky I redirected all DNS requests to 1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1 and it worked brilliantly, for about a month when it stopped working all together, I don’t know if a cache was wiped or google saw what I was doing and made a special exception just for me, obviously I want to believe I’m a special snowflake taking the world’s largest internet company head on in an epic battle of wits and skill but I think the cache thing might be more likely for some reason.

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        11 hours ago

        You mean redirecting on your router? How should google stop you from doing that? And why would you redirect to cloudflare lol

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          6 hours ago

          It could start using DNS over HTTPS if it had enough failed requests. Those wouldn’t be able to be redirected

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      1 day ago

      What a shower of twats. Don’t block the request in that case, just redirect it to your local server that returns a 1x1 transparent png for all requests.