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This simple trick disables ads in Gmail - but there's a catch
(www.zdnet.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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I’m genuinely shocked that there are people out there that view ads. Between ublock and pihole depending on location I can barely think of the last ads I saw.
It's using apps on a non local connection that gets me.
You can still catch most of them using a blocking DNS service like dns.adguard.com but still some get through.
How safe is adguard? DNS needs to be trusted.
Ublock isn't going to block these ads. These ads are those little emails with the ad tag in your Social and Promotions tab, not banner ads or popups.
Interesting. I didn't think there would be a difference.