(1/X) I’m really shaken up right now. I was just visited by two plainclothes police officers from California Highway Patrol at my home. They said they came here on behalf of the Capitol Police and accused me of threatening @AOC on Twitter yesterday. This is provably false. pic.twitter.com/NGR8KViy93— Human Rights Watch Watcher (@queeralamode) April 8, 2021
DNS is how you computer turns your favorite website's domain name, www.dailykos.com, into an actual IP address for your own network to talk to. A DNS provider is a server that does this for you. It's normally configured to be an IP address run by your internet provider, though sometimes people set it to a Google, Cloudflare, or Mozilla server or actually run their own entire server.
The adblocker in your browser blocks domains associated with ads and junk when your browser asks for them. PiHole sits between your network and the outside world, doing basically the same thing but for all network traffic before it could get to any browser. It's adblock for your whole network. It does this by acting as a DNS provider itself, where it's really just blocking certain domains and forwarding non-blocked ones to a typical DNS provider.
DNS is how you computer turns your favorite website's domain name, www.dailykos.com, into an actual IP address for your own network to talk to. A DNS provider is a server that does this for you. It's normally configured to be an IP address run by your internet provider, though sometimes people set it to a Google, Cloudflare, or Mozilla server or actually run their own entire server.
The adblocker in your browser blocks domains associated with ads and junk when your browser asks for them. PiHole sits between your network and the outside world, doing basically the same thing but for all network traffic before it could get to any browser. It's adblock for your whole network. It does this by acting as a DNS provider itself, where it's really just blocking certain domains and forwarding non-blocked ones to a typical DNS provider.