Been kind of an interesting illustration of technical vs economic influences in an ecosystem. While it's no uBO, it works on every single device and browser including in apps and it seems like it really shouldn't, that more parties would just be proxying ads through their own infra and DNS. But as I've been switching all my routing from UniFi to OPNsense, I've gone ahead and tried out Unbound's basic built-in blacklisting. Not because it's a big technical achievement but because it isn't and in principle seems relatively trivial to work around. Having said that I've also been fairly stunned recently to see how much difference a simple DNS blacklist system can make too. I remember seeing Gorhill discuss a few times over the years some of the reqs for uBO during certain times (like why it could no longer work with Safari following changes Apple made a while back), but so cool to have it all collected in one place. And I do think of it that way these days, it's fairly stunning on some sites to switch off all the block and see how they become genuinely unbrowsable. Wow, what an awesome dive into some of the technical aspects behind one of my favorite tools for using the web.
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