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If you ever needed a reason to justify ad blockers (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by kirstierthanthou@beehaw.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Juno@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This, you don't have to even run a program. Every phone uses the host file all day all the time anyway, you're just telling it to load nothing instead of usual behavior of "no it's not hosted here, go get it online" you're just saying "no, don't go get it, it's hosted here" except it's not, so it isn't retrieved at all.