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		great_wubwub on Nov 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An extensive tutorial on how to setup a Pi-Hole I can think of three reasons: 1. ad blockers are still so niche that it's not worth it to them 2. static IP addresses are dead-simple to block in a router or (probably? not a browser coder) in a browser plugin 3. static IP addresses aren't a real great cloud pattern, they're hard to scale out to meet demand

leesalminen on Nov 29, 2022 [–]

Re #3 - AWS Global Accelerator will give you 2 anycast static IPs that you can then route at will inside AWS.

great_wubwub on Nov 29, 2022 | [–]

Sure, and you can do BYOIP with cloud providers or CDNs. But then those IPs are trivial to block, and although I've never tried it, I suspect AWS GA isn't set up to constantly rotate IP addresses.

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