• Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      2 days 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.