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In addition to entire websites, it is possible to block accounts on social media, [1] and some 13 accounts have been blocked on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, [3] [8] including Uriminzokkiri's Twitter account. [1] Twitter, however, has proven impractical to censor because retweets of North Korean tweets by other users are not blocked. [9]
Pi-hole functions similarly to a network firewall [dubious – [[Talk:Pi-hole#network firewall|discuss]]], meaning that advertisements and tracking domains are blocked for all devices behind it, whereas traditional advertisement blockers only run in a user's browser, and remove advertisements only on the same machine.
Devices such as AdTrap [73] or Pi-hole use hardware to block Internet advertising. Based on reviews of AdTrap, this device uses a Linux Kernel running a version of PrivProxy to block ads from video streaming , music streaming , and any web browser, [ 74 ] while PiHole acts as a local DNS to block advertisement servers, stopping connected ...
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In multiple instances YouTube access was blocked in Syria by the Syrian government and blackouts caused by the Syrian civil war. YouTube has been blocked since August 2007 after videos were circulated denouncing the crackdown on the Kurd minority. In February 2011 Syria lifted their block of YouTube and other social media services. [95] [96]
The browser extension blocks video ads, interstitial ads, floating ads, pop-ups, banners, and text ads. [3] It is also able to handle anti-AdBlock scripts. [4]AdGuard blocks spyware and warns users of malicious websites.
Another use is to block ad serving sites, either using a host's file-based sinkhole [9] or by locally running a DNS server (e.g., using a Pi-hole). Local DNS servers effectively block ads for all devices on the network.
The DNS server also features blocking domain names using block lists [23] and also supports using HTTP or SOCKS5, for transport of DNS requests over Tor network. [24] The DNS server supports running independently developed plugins that can be used to process and respond to DNS requests.