This is one of those things that if you really want to do it, you’ll have to live with the consequences.

I’m an American that VPNs everything first to my VPS then down a double hop commercial VPN tunnel that finally exits in Switzerland. DNS traffic also travels over that VPN tunnel so you’ll rightly guess that my DNS is rather slow too.

What I do is I run a resolver on the VPS (physically near me) that aggressively prefetches commonly queried DNS records. After years of using Unbound I found Blocky to be much, much faster (especially with huge blocklists). It’s to the point now where sure, it’s slower than a “normal” internet connection but it doesn’t feel slow to me anymore.

Storj Tardigrade with client-side encryption. I use rclone so you could even encrypt it before hitting the Storj library if you’re extra paranoid (among other things like caching, chunking, etc).

The Bitch-Off

Can we make this the official name of whatever the hell is happening now?

Did you not read my edit?

Anyway, I prefer to block at the DNS level so that ads and tracking are blocked across all apps on all my devices—this happens before traffic is bounced through a double hop VPN.

I intentionally don’t block in-browser because then it’s likely to hide content coming from domains I want blocked from apps too. That’s why I use the Hide Distracting Elements feature of Safari.

Finally, the blurry <div> blocking the article isn’t even an ad. It would be cool if you didn’t shit on my setup without knowing anything about it in the first place. If I were making assumptions about yours I’d say you’re only running a “decent” ad blocker in your browser and missing 99% of the bullshit in apps and outside the browser.

What do ads have to do with it? I’m blocking ads and tracking to the point that it’s rather extreme and not convenient for most people.

Edit: Now I see what you mean. I block at the DNS level but using Safari’s Hide Distracting Elements feature I got rid of the <div> doing the blur. Had I been on desktop I probably would’ve been able to get it using Element Inspect, but I’d thought this specific website was smarter than that.

Anyone have the links to any repos? I’m not in the mood to hand out an email address just to read this story.

Edit: Lemmy is worse each and every day. Fuck me for disturbing the hive mind you fucking wankers.

Oh believe me, I know all those issues exist. The idea would simply never happen.

Yeah, I know my idea is a pipe dream—it would never happen due to greed.

When I was like 10 I wondered why hardware didn’t just have some flash chip with its driver source code written in a standardized way. The idea sounds corny in retrospect, but honestly why isn’t it a thing?

Yeah, it’s too late. They’re still 100% blocked on my networks.

Am I a former Reddit user? And why don’t you capitalize proper nouns? The slop is everywhere and it’s not even AI generated. 😭

to try to* take

What’s up with to try and everywhere?

Isn’t that Bootstrap’s “info” blue too?

Frankly I’m more concerned about the fish themselves than I am the fishermen. Both are huge environmental problems.

It can be specific to the web application but generally speaking you’d want to pass the protocol, client IP address, etc.

What in the hashtags is going on here?

Might not be exactly what you’re looking for but I find Gotenberg quite handy for related activities.

Then why respond?

I know, but why? Not trying to be a hater but why not just use the native words?

I know, but why? Not trying to be a hater but why not just use the native words?