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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agobasically they hijack dns resolution to return does not exist errors when requests are sent to the tracking systems. highly effective, but also many sites are negatively impacted by them because no one codes for failure in the web industry.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agohow do they know where the tracking systems are?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agothere are well known distribution lists that people add servers to that these things periodically fetch and use to perform the blocking.
basically they hijack dns resolution to return does not exist errors when requests are sent to the tracking systems. highly effective, but also many sites are negatively impacted by them because no one codes for failure in the web industry.
how do they know where the tracking systems are?
there are well known distribution lists that people add servers to that these things periodically fetch and use to perform the blocking.