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New NextDNS blocklists look dumb. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 6 hours ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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How is this even possible? I thought Youtube and Reddit ads are impossible to block via a DNS filter.

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[–] 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

How is this even possible? I thought Youtube and Reddit ads are impossible to block via a DNS filter.

Perhaps proxying through Invidious and or Redlib instances? Given that a Redlib and Invidious URL’s follow the same paths as Reddit & YouTube it’s not hard to replace https://reddit.com/r/SomeSubreddit with https://lib.nextdns.tld/r/SomeSubreddit or https://youtube.com/watch?v=SomeVideoID with https://inv.nextdns.tld/watch?v=SomeVideoID

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    uhh.... wouldn't that trigger all sorts of https certificate failures?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    Depends on how this actually works, I don’t use NextDNS so I can’t tell whether or not from the image provided if this is a browser extension or some sort of app. It’s possible this feature has absolutely nothing to do with DNS but they advertise it as such.

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