I was just looking around on different websites for what happened to programs like PeerBlock
Seems like they’re not really too helpful to protect yourself against snitches. But they are helpful for blocking the IP-ranges of advertising companies…
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Things like PiHole, nextDNS and the desktop versions of adguard only block HTTP, FTP and POP and SMTP connections. It doesn’t block connections to advertising companies through other protocols.
Correct, but what other protocols are they using? When was the last time you had an ad served via FTP?
good point. but there’s still malware C&C servers that can only be blocked by blocking the IP range