The Google Pay app is shutting down in the US - eviltoast
  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    8 months ago

    It’s too big to fail now. Advertisers hardcode it into their apps and iot devices to evade DNS adblockers for a while now.

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      8 months ago

      Joke’s on them, I block Google DNS in my router, and a bunch of DoH servers (fuck I hate DoH).

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        DoH and DoT, originally developed to prevent ISP to tamper with DNS query to inject ads, now ironically used by advertisers to evade DNS-based blocking on their ads sdk and iot devices.