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DNS-Blocklists: For a better internet - keep the internet clean!

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google news ads #3592

Closed olumolu closed 2 weeks ago

olumolu commented 2 weeks ago

Which domain(s) should be blocked?

encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com

Why should these domain(s) be blocked?

This domain load the news stuff in google news but this are ads as different users will see different news stuff.

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hagezi commented 2 weeks ago

This breaks a lot ...

olumolu commented 2 weeks ago

This breaks a lot ...

Sorry for asking but i couldn't find anything as such broken. Mainly I don't use google services i use youtube some gmail some g drive. So couldn't find the broken stuff.

hagezi commented 2 weeks ago

@olumolu Simply research the details online beforehand.

The domains encrypted-tbn*.gstatic.com is used by Google and is part of the Content Delivery Network (CDN), which is used to deliver images and other media files to various Google services. The main purpose of this domain and the associated CDN is to load images quickly and efficiently by delivering them via geographically distributed servers.

Google Maps or Google News use these domains, for example, to load images or map sections.