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0 pointskmlx1y ago0 comments

yes, one of my clients was hit by this and i was tasked with solving the situation.

i had to create a ticket in a repo explaining why blocking a whole domain instead of a single subdomain was actually pretty bad. they approved it and reverted the change.

finding where exactly i had to open the ticket and what to write was a “down the rabbit hole” experience.

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pbhjpbhj1y ago

Domains are cheap, don't serve content on an ad domain maybe?

Sounds like perhaps your task was to ensure a company's ads got through an adblocker?

kmlxOP1y ago

my task was to rectify an issue in one of these crowd sourced lists of ad servers.

they were blocking a whole domain instead of blocking the ad-serving subdomain.

the issue was rectified, the main domain was replaced by the ad-serving subdomain.

hathawsh1y ago

Still, as pbhjpbhj suggested, if I were publishing both content and ads, I would consider publishing the ads on a different domain (not just a subdomain) to reduce technical issues. Domains with ugly names are very cheap.

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__jonas1y ago

You could be right but you are definitely jumping to a conclusion here.

The default lists used by uBlock for example include things like error tracking telemetry, Sentry for example.

I can see why people want to block that stuff (privacy) but it’s not exactly an “ad”

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