My browser passed with flying colors, but I suspect that had less to do with my ad blocker and more to do with the fact that I don't have JS enabled. When you can get away with it, not allowing JS makes websites less annoying and more secure.
I'm not sure that's what you're implying, but DNS-level blocking is not more powerful than filtering in the browser, at least in the sense of what it is capable of.
Content-filtering can and most definitely does block domains entirely, but it can also filter page elements served from the same domain which match a known ad "signature".
Though, if you can't run an adblocker, e.g. your Smart TV's browser then sure, DNS-level blocking is your best bet.
My browser passed with flying colors, but I suspect that had less to do with my ad blocker and more to do with the fact that I don't have JS enabled. When you can get away with it, not allowing JS makes websites less annoying and more secure.
I occasionally go to AdBlock Tester to test my browser’s ability to block ads. (No affiliation)
https://adblock-tester.com
Ironically this site falls into my company's content filtering and was automatically blocked
hugged to death? "Error establishing a database connection"
The ad was blocked at the storage level, I guess
Relevant previous topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120186
"Test your adblocker" websites can harm users and the adblocker ecosystem (brave.com)
Looks like testing ad blockers is trickier than we thought—sometimes the test sites even get blocked themselves!
when the ad block tester gets blocked you know youre on to something.. seed round incoming
my blocker works so great the site won't even load
It got HN hugged to death.
My adblocker blocks this on the DNS level ;)
So, I guess the answer is: yes, I can block it
I'm not sure that's what you're implying, but DNS-level blocking is not more powerful than filtering in the browser, at least in the sense of what it is capable of.
Content-filtering can and most definitely does block domains entirely, but it can also filter page elements served from the same domain which match a known ad "signature".
Though, if you can't run an adblocker, e.g. your Smart TV's browser then sure, DNS-level blocking is your best bet.
Not implying anything, just saying that the domain is in a global blocklist already.
Page doesn’t load at all, so yes I guess.
fascinated to see what people's recommendations are. I have uBlock origin and it seems to do pretty good but it does get the "adblocked detected"
NoScript does the job. Not a single ad in sight.
Did I just get rickrolled by an adblock tester‽
Just installed uBlock lite on my iPhone and it seems to hold up against this test.
anyone knows the best ad blocker?
I use brave
adblock plus no longer works well
Guy just decided to create a site using Wordpress and then post it to HN
php doesn't scale :)
It’s not PHP fault tbh, it’s wp doesn’t scale