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dakotahawkins t1_j61jzaq wrote

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AFAIK network admins are probably MITM-ing https traffic. I’ve looked into doing it at my house because you’d have to in order to set up a network-wide adblocker, but businesses do it because reasons. If they can’t MITM tor or similar, they could still use their MITM system to block unrecognized encrypted traffic, probably.

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justmy2loonies t1_j62ablr wrote

You don’t have to mitm to Adblock. DNS filtering isn’t exactly mitm

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dakotahawkins t1_j65eub5 wrote

Sorry for the delayed response.

Sure, but it's nowhere near as thorough. Some ads are served by domains you probably wouldn't want to blacklist, and otherwise you may want to block specific page elements like your in-browser adblocker does (or should).

If you MITM your own traffic you can do that kind of matching to block individual requests. Does that make sense? I had a raspberry pi running pihole for quite a while and when something broke with it I just gave up on it as I didn't feel it was buying me that much.

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