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  • Oh wow, you sent me down a rabbit hole! That’s a great tool. Then I realized it requires an account, as it is a paid service. And their main service is a search engine, which seems really interesting so far (you get 100 searches free). Love the customization options! What’s your experience with the result quality? Not a huge fan of having to 0ay by search once beyond a threshold, but if the service is good…Google got super annoying with all the ads. But there’s still companies like Duckduckgo that offer great search as well.




  • Basically, whenever you make a request to access something from the internet (say, an ad image), it goes to a dedicated server that tells you “Where actually do I find www.website.com” (the answer is, you find it at address 128.129.130.1, this is the IP address). This is the DNS server.

    If you tell your phone to use an ad-blocking DNS server - Instead of “normal” ones like e.g. those provided by Google - , whenever it receives such a request to find the address for you, and the address leads to a server that serves ads, it tells you, “Sorry, nothing found here” and the add is not displayed.

    Phones, at least Android, have a setting where you can change the DNA server to an ad-blocking one (a different IP of that server).


  • Myro@lemm.eetoGames@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, Deluxe editions have been available since decades. In a way it is similar that you are not getting ‘all of the game’ without it - though this often includes items next to the game (soundtrack etc.) that have no direct influence on your enjoyment. With MT you directly influence the game and repeatedly, as in, I can buy 1,2,3… “super potions” or whatever. For me they are quite distinct while similar on the surface.