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Is anyone else too addicted to the no. of blocked connections ? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago by undivided7378@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Actually i mean, is anyone here only using dns services like controld, Nextdns, Adguard, etc. just because they show the blocked queries even though you know these dns blockers doesn't do much more than blocking ads + malicious domains (unreliable) and provide parental controls ?

Just a doubt how blocked domains count provide a sense of protection when actually it is really just an illusion. (I believe when trackers are cookies, it is impossible to count them all and modern website have even more trackers than these dns blockers can detect and block).

Also in whotracksme you can see how much trackers in a website when visiting that website you can't see that much connection blocked or even detected.

What are your opinions ? Is this all wrong and the blocked queries actually matter and accurate ?

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

That’s not really an addiction. More of a neurosis, or possibly an obsession.

[–] JASN_DE@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

The number is just that, the number of blocked connections. Don't read too much into it.

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

I don't watch them obsessively, but once or twice a month I'll take a look to see if there's been any errors pop up (sometimes lists go dead) and everytime I'm floored by the %s. Just looked and 74.4% of all my dns queries are blocked. 3x the number of legitimate requests are blocked. Feels like just a few years ago it was closer to 50%. Makes me wonder how much worse things will get.

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

I don't care what the number is as long as ads and tracking are blocked.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not addicted but I love to show those low numbers from my degoogled android or Linux system compared to Windows and Apple 😁 !

It's hard to explain what DNS is, but numbers everyone can understand them !

"You see all those number go up? In 1 day your device makes more blocked requests than my devies did in 1 month !"

[–] undivided7378@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

No, you are wrong. My device too is degoogled and only apps from fdroid. 😎 when 1000 queries are requested only 50 of them are blocked only because 1host xtra 😅

[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

FWIW, I use dns blockers but don't check the numbers

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

When I was still on Windows I used TinyWall and I would just refresh and stare dreamily at the page showing all those blocked connections from Microsoft services to who the hell knows. It was very therapeutic 🥲

Especially considering that absolutely everyone was telling me to use Windows Defender because "it's good now I swear" but it wouldn't allow me to block most Microsoft stuff...