Has this new list blocked anything that should not have been for you?
New Update NextDNS adds several new Early Access security features
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Honestly, it feels a bit unsettling, how much they keep adding up? Is it AI or did someone donated crates of energy drinks to NextDNS team?
You are right to question more of the same adding not much value. Combined with NextDNS practice to keep old filters listed for ages (even when they have 0 entries or have not been updated for years), makes me wonder about their strategy and goals they want to achieve. The explanation of @TairikuOkami suddenly seems plausible
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I don´t want to promote one particular DNS, but for privacy and advertising NextDNS is the best
These 3 protections really show they understand how digital advertising works,
1. To fight adblockers the advertising industry is using more and more an advertising back bone of changing adservers. I don´t know whether I translate it well, but fighting changing ad (backbone) infrastructure through which ads are delivered is a cat and mouse numvers game, which is very hard for filter maintainers to keep up. As an example this sublist of EasyList now has 43.000 domains, a few days ago it had over 60.000 domains listed (so they cleaned it up recently). The costs for registration of a new domain is peanuts (e.g. less than a dollar per month) while income is high. Kudo's to NextDNS providing a blocking mechanism for it.
2. Block disguised third-party trackers (which try to hide as first party). Adguard started to provide blocklists for it, soon every adblocker had blocklist for this evasion mechanism (e.g. CNAME uncloaking). Thank NextDNS again to offer a solution.
3. Allow affiliate marketing tracking links. To prevent website breakage it is a smart thing to allow tracking links. But here is the catch, now I am tracked. NextDNS solution is to strip your IP address. 80% of the tracking mechanisms use a few fingerprinting datapoints and combine it with your IP to make it uniqye (to much fingerprinting slows down the website and digital marketeers don;t want slow downs), so nextDNS solution to allow affiliate trackers, but remove your IP is brilliant. It cripples 80% of the current ¨returning visitors tracking" practices,
It takes a thief to catch a thief (I was a digital marketing data thief), so for every MT-member not having tried out NextDNS FREE with account, give it a go.
These 3 protections really show they understand how digital advertising works,
1. To fight adblockers the advertising industry is using more and more an advertising back bone of changing adservers. I don´t know whether I translate it well, but fighting changing ad (backbone) infrastructure through which ads are delivered is a cat and mouse numvers game, which is very hard for filter maintainers to keep up. As an example this sublist of EasyList now has 43.000 domains, a few days ago it had over 60.000 domains listed (so they cleaned it up recently). The costs for registration of a new domain is peanuts (e.g. less than a dollar per month) while income is high. Kudo's to NextDNS providing a blocking mechanism for it.
2. Block disguised third-party trackers (which try to hide as first party). Adguard started to provide blocklists for it, soon every adblocker had blocklist for this evasion mechanism (e.g. CNAME uncloaking). Thank NextDNS again to offer a solution.
3. Allow affiliate marketing tracking links. To prevent website breakage it is a smart thing to allow tracking links. But here is the catch, now I am tracked. NextDNS solution is to strip your IP address. 80% of the tracking mechanisms use a few fingerprinting datapoints and combine it with your IP to make it uniqye (to much fingerprinting slows down the website and digital marketeers don;t want slow downs), so nextDNS solution to allow affiliate trackers, but remove your IP is brilliant. It cripples 80% of the current ¨returning visitors tracking" practices,
It takes a thief to catch a thief (I was a digital marketing data thief), so for every MT-member not having tried out NextDNS FREE with account, give it a go.
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Honestly, it feels a bit unsettling, how much they keep adding up? Is it AI or did someone donated crates of energy drinks to NextDNS team?
Enabled for testing.
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The new feature has blocked (though not exclusively) this domain from the PhishTank database:
hxxps://allegro.com-numerbiletu128312391.sbs
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