Comment on New Nitrogen malware pushed via Google Ads for ransomware attacks

• ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My pihole also blocks an absolute fuckton of stuff, and yes, more is better with the type of granular control you get with it.

  Because you can manually go in and whitelist/unblock stuff, or just disable blocking entirely, if you want to view it and it’s blocked. It’s a conscious decision to do so, but it’s definitely an option, and a pretty easy one at that, especially if you have a mobile app interface.

  For example, I have the Roku domain blocked so my TVs can’t serve ads or call home all the damn time, but I need to unblock it once every 3-4 months or so to update apps and firmware.

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• CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    More means more false positives too. It’s usess to have a block list with millions of hosts that never get resolved. And there’s also the ABP format that’s supported now which needs far less block list entries to achieve the same.

    So no, more is not necessarily better. More is inefficient.

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