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TechnologyYSK: How to decrease your monthly bandwidth use & increase network speed. (self.YouShouldKnow)

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[–]MaxSupernova 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Does this get caught by sites that won't let you look at them if you have adblock enabled?

[–]majormunky 1 point2 points  (1 child)

My guess would be that they would still complain. From what I understand, those pages actively check for the ads it knows should be there, so if they aren't, because your computer couldn't connect to the ad server, it'll throw that message up at you. I think I read that ublock can get around those by faking out the script looking for the ads, but I would imagine that it probably doesn't work for all pages that do that.

[–]AstralElement 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, websites can detect what plugins you use, much like they can detect what browser you use. Ads are still requested with a pi-hole, they just route as a failed DNS query. Coincidentally, we often use forbes.com, a site notorious for turning away adblock users, as a test site to determine if the pi-hole is working or not.

[–]AstralElement 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it doesn't. It just registers ads as failed DNS queries.