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		drnick1 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I block all online ads What is the point of such restrictions? DNS blacklists can be trivially bypassed by changing the browser's or the operating system's DNS resolver. For example, and somewhat insidiously, Firefox defaults to using Cloudflare AFAIK.

jamesbelchamber 8 days ago [–]

Adding friction, reducing "accidents" and ticking the "we tried" box.

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