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		norgie on April 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV f... To be fair, blocking can cause more requests than "normal" as they don't always use good back offs. My Nvidia Shield used to spam my DNS with 10s of thousands of requests a day like this after I blocked the domain, but they seem to have fixed it at some point.

bombcar on April 7, 2023 [–]

I have a server that responds with a blank every access which satisfies some of them, but with HTTPS it’s harder to do.

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