A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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[–] howsetheraven@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

How long did it take to un-break basically every website? I tried doing this and it made pretty much every site that had this problem unusable. I could never find a sweetspot that only blocks ads and let's legitimate traffic through; and it caused issues with my partner's work portals.

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[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Moving target. They ho to work every day to fuck up uthe internet.

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[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 1 point 9 months ago

Start with the default block list. That shouldn't break everything, if it does give examples of the problems and the sites and I'm sure we can find a solution.

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[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

It weirdly didn't break every website? It said it might, but it ended up not. No idea how, or what I did. The only issue has been my room mate plays mobile games and some of those give ads for a benefit, so they can't watch those.

I'm using HaGeZi's block list (https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists). Not saying it'll work for everyone, but it doesn't cause me any issues, even on the strictest one.

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

Which of HaGeZi's blocklists are you using specifically?

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[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2 points 9 months ago

Ultimate, the strictest one. I remember picking one down, but just pulled it up and it is the Ultimate blocklist

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