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Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 3 days ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Time to outright disable Javascript in my browsers and just deal with the broken sites and generally less useful web.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You may take a look at DNS filtering solutions like Pi-Hole or AdGuardHome [1]. It blocks ads / trackers without directly interacting with website content.

[1] https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/#self-hosted-dns-filtering

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I'm aware, and I run a couple of Pi-hole VMs at home. The issue is DNS adblocking is only effective as long as the ads and the legit content don't come from the same domain.