Does anyone know how the Ghostery extension works in Google Chrome? I switched to that quite a while ago, from uBlock Origin after uBlock started having issues just working. Personally I love Ghostery and I think it does a fantastic job, and I really enjoy the whitelist I have built up as well for tons of websites that don't serve ads so that it isn't blocking good elements of them by accident.
>pointed to a British firm called SafeToNet
There it is. Some UK MP's brother/friend/spouse owns this shitware company and wants those kickbacks right into their own pocket.
DNS based blocking only works as long as the ads are served from hosts than the content. Closing that loophole would be pretty easy. I'd say it sits in a sweet spot of being just nerdy enough that the average person doesn't set it up, meaning it isn't really on the big companies' radars.