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snake_plissken
on May 10, 2018
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The Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers
Pi-Hole is different from using a hosts file in that, Pi-Hole returns 200 OK with empty content for any requests to the black-listed domains?
gruez
on May 10, 2018
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how does that work with https?
64kbisalluneed
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Just install nginx that answers to http and https and return empty gif or 204.
Chaebixi
on May 10, 2018
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Would that fail because your sever can't provide the right cert? You'd probably have to install a custom root certificate on your machines that you https ad blocker could use to forge certs.
64kbisalluneed
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Yes, custom cert has to be used, otherwise browsing could be very annoying.
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