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You can tell the day I installed lineage os(with microg) on my dad's phone. (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My pihole reports similar after blocking millions of sites

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The problem with that is it is going to retry again and again. I wish there was a way to make them think they connected so there would be less tries.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's basically just a ping that fails at that point. Not like it's taking down the network.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Depends on both what the adblocker responds and how a given program handles failures.

Pi-Hole and similar adblockers can pretend that the domain is on the device itself (A 127.0.0.1), is an invalid IP (A 0.0.0.0) or that the domain doesn't exist at all (NXDOMAIN). Each one has its own implications, with the latter (usually the default afaik) being the most likely to have software generate a hard error and give up.