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    8 months ago

    I’ve been getting Lactaid ads alllllll over the Internet since reading that article.

    Guess there is a new advertiser site that needs blocking …

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      8 months ago

      Use firefox and ublock origin, and all that ends. I haven’t seen an ad in a decade.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, Firefox and ublock. Plus privacy badger, and Blokada5.

        Still got me somehow. The ad showed up in an app, not a browser. Updated/added more blocklists.

        EDIT: You were right! Get a gold star for that one. The Lemmy app I use was still set to open links itself, not the default browser. I forgot I’d changed it when I used Sync, but not when I switched to Connect! I still had many ads blocked because of the VPN.

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            8 months ago

            Yup, got that too for my home network. Though I suspect several advertisers have gotten wise and hard coded different DNS into their programs. I don’t see the requests I think I should on some devices. There is not a lot of troubleshooting when it comes to IPv6 and while there are many AAAA queries on my server, there are a higher percentage on the server I set up for my parents.