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Cloudflare, are there plans for ad blocking? Currently using AdGuard DNS and it works well. Router-level ad-blocking would be an attractive premium option.

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You should really want those to be separate services. The incentives get weirdly snarled if you expect your VPN to also block ads.

Making it a plugin that you could plug another app into might be cool, though?

I think he's asking because you can't easily combine DNS services. If you're using a service to block ads via dns then you aren't using 1.1.1.1. If you want to use 1.1.1.1 then you need to either host your own forwarding dns server or forego ad blocking.

If Cloudflare provides CDN services for advertisers, you likely won't see adblocking products from them.

That is not something which has factored into the conversation on our (Cloudflare's) end. The bigger issue is even as we make technical improvements, we very much don't want to create a separate Internet. The minute we begin adding, removing, or changing content when it comes through Warp those questions begin to be asked.

You also don't want to be in the business of determining which ads are "good" and which are "bad" and being tastemakers in any way, so probably a smart choice to stay out of the ad game.

A good add on though might be a way for people to run their own service on a Cloudflare worker that gets hit with each request to 1^4, which would allow them to run their own ad blocker.

Same concern here. I use the open source dns66 app with cloudflare dns so I get the best of ad blocking/content filtering and fast connections. I love the idea of improving my privacy and theoretically performance for the connections I want to make, but not at the expense of that functionality.

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