• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    An ad blocker is preventing this page from loading

    No it isn’t, you’re preventing the page from loading to punish me for using an ad blocker.

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        6 days ago

        I have pretty strict DNS filtering across the home network, so I assumed it was that. But it still loads for me in Brave on Linux. It didn’t load in Vanadium on GrapheneOS.

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          5 days ago

          Mildly informed speculatuon:

          In-browser ad bkockers may use anti-anti-ad-blocker filtering rules.

          I am pretty sure uBlockOrigin does this by default. But I can’t be sure about the rest at the moment, although my guess is, even the other ad blockers will likely allow at least optionally to set up a filter to remove anti-ad-blocking code from your private copy of a web page you’ve loaded from the net.

          DNS filtering naturally will still load all the anti-ad-blocking code, because DNS filtering does not analyze the contents of your private copy of the web page in question.

          I am of the opinion that you should NOT have to know all this before you can have a decent and safe experience on the net. It’s shame.

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            5 days ago

            That seems plausible, and it would make sense of an otherwise puzzling situation.