I don’t think it’s that connection causing problems, mainly because my app works fine (mostly) and I don’t have a connection to any meta services. There are none on my phone, and I do not have a Facebook login at all. I will say that of all the apps I use, Ally is the most finicky. It seems to crash itself every 2-3 uses for no apparent reason at all.
That said, it seems unlikely that the app would fail for you in this case just because you blocked access to a service that I know it does not actually require to operate (because it has to be operating without it on my phone), and another poster tested and could not recreate. Not sure if that helps, but may point you towards diagnosing what is really causing the issue!
You have to establish a shared password that only you two know, this should be done in person, face to face. Someone needs to make an app for storing passwords for people as opposed to websites. I suppose contact lists could store the password field.
In the next 5-10 years, we may see mass migrations begin as a few locations become too hot to bear, and corrupt religious authorities seeking power will pin the more hostile climate on recent social changes rather than the actual immorality of corporate greed. This sets the stage for tensions over land and resources to escalate into wars and civil violence in later years.
There is no better time for action than now! Climate Changemakers is a low-commitment way to get involved, if you’re in America.
Something else is going on with your setup, I block graph.facebook.com via DNS too and Ally works fine, both app and browser.
Your screenshot looks like you’re also blocking ntp.org which could definitely screw with a banking app, and launchdarkly.com may also be the problem if they’re loading assets from that service.
LaunchDarkly essentially just serves up true/false values for services to grab. It can be useful to update code functionality without having to rebuild / recompile. However, any service that uses the launch darkly API should have a default state for their values to fall back on, so it shouldn’t cause any major issues if LaunchDarkly can’t be reached.
YouTube Shorts is a blight on humanity. It is even more sinister than TikTok. No joke. Glad that you can add an extension to block the YouTube “shorts”.
Tiktok users are actively seeking that type of content, where with YouTube shorts they are trying to push the stuff on people that aren’t interested in it (if they were, they’d be on tiktok). That’s my take on what they’re saying. Seems a reasonable take.
I mean… At least the people using TikTok WANT to see that type of content. At least they know their audience and aren’t trying to push their garbage on me.
I wouldn’t try to argue that TikTok is not a shitty company (they are!), but personally most of their bullshit doesn’t affect me since they are an uninstalled app. YouTube trying to push this shitty format on me on the other hand is aggravating.
I highly suggest using Enhancer for YouTube, it allows you to hide shorts and also convert them to normal video player so you can seek them like any other YouTube video.
There’s also multitude of different customisation options, you can hide related videos, change default comment order, disable comments altogether, expand the description ;)
I added graph.facebook.com to my pi-hole’s black list as a regex entry
Yes, but did you clear the DNS cache on your device after doing this? Once the DNS lookup is done it doesn’t matter what you’ve done on your pihole. The IP is cached and pihole will not even see the query.
It was blocked in the browser, which implies there’s not a cached record for it on the device
The Pi-hole logs the queries it receives and I do have four separate entries for that URL today, spaced in an amount of time that does not imply automatic requests but does likely match up with my test cases.
I’ll just point out that I have tracker blocker running on my rooted Android at all times, graph.facebook.com is blocked across all apps on the device, Ive made sure of this. For maybe the 3 or so years I’ve been running it like that, I’ve very, very seldomly found an app that fails if it can’t reach Facebook, though many try.
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