Help it make sense please. My limited knowledge & AI are positively bamboozled on this.
I am running a test on an adblock testing site. (not sure if links are allowed. It involves turtles in the URL lol)
When I run it with ublock disabled, I catch 130/134. (I thought this was due to my DNS blocklist, but I removed it and ublock and it still caught 95/134).
However, when I ENABLE ublock, it only blocks 72/134.
It seems a whole slough of amazon trackers & other things make it through.
I'm just not sure why this is happening. It does seem to fluctuate slightly on how many get caught on each refresh, but enabling Ublock is a noticeable drop in protection immediately.
I thought maybe DNS blocking was not letting Ublock catch the bulk of them so it was "overwriting" the effectiveness of the block when it was already caught at the DNS level, but that disabling DNS and ONLY running Ublock only catches 70.
My setup:
Router has NextDNS with Hegazi Ultimate BLocklist.
Proton VPN, but custom DNS set to NextDNS. (verified with dnstestleak)
Running Firefox on Linux with strict tracking prevent enabled. (Also changed this, didn't seem to do anything)
Extensions Ublock Origin & Privacy Badger. (Badger on or off doesn't change anything. Ublock is the one in question)
My ISP also offers a "Guard" which may be catching some.
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