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ckastner on March 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

Hence why I merely opposed actively encouraging this pattern.

I can't stop people from doing potentially dangerous things, but I don't have to promote those things, either.

mrstone on March 13, 2017 [–]

I don't think the other way is inherently any safer, because people don't tend to actually audit their sources to begin with.

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