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Self-Hosting a DNS Sinkhole is really important (www.wired.com)
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[–] AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yeah, they've done this on this one particular site that I like to read, one old (hilarious) celebrity blogger who made a new home on [redacted]. [redacted] is pure shit. I dunno exactly what they're doing but the ads they serve up are largely local rather than third party - and they're served up so aggressively the site is all but unreadable on my phone. So ads are crazy in-your-face despite having adblock on the phone itself and a Pi-Hole! Just to keep reading the guy I like I had to set up a shortcut that loads it in reader view to bypass all the bullshit and fuck knows how long that will last before they somehow figure out how to block reader view.

Edit: I probably shouldn't be giving them ideas, lol.

[–] chagall@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I saw the domain before you edited it lol. I went to the site and have zero ads on mobile, although I did have an empty placeholder in one spot where the ads would have been.

Make sure the following domains are blocked on your pihole:

html-load.cc
githack.com
cdn.statically.io
revcontent.com
pub.network

Then, make sure you have these two lines as entries on your mobile adblocker:

/ad-shield/e/*$script,third-party
/cdn-cgi/zaraz/*

If there is a specific url you'd like me to look at, feel free to message me.

Edit to add: even better than the individual domains, to add https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/hagezi/dns-blocklists@latest/adblock/pro.txt as a list and then just include the githack.com domain. Pihole supports adblock syntax, so you'll be fine with this.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Edit: Do not click on tracker links below.

Looks like cdn-statically.io has not yet been added to any of the big block lists I use, but I found it in my DNS logs from today. Good catch! I didn't find githack.com or revcontent but added them to block, and it looks like pub.network and html-load.cc are on the big blocklists and getting blocked. Thank for the tips.

[–] AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I did this, and you're right - no ads. 👍 Thanks a bunch, I've saved your comment so if I run into one of these again I may hit you up!

[–] chagall@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Thanks for taking the time to let me know it worked for you! I like helping people so this made my day!

[–] redballooon@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Provide the URL to your AI chat and ask it to print out the article for you.