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How can users turn this off?

https://duckduckgo.com/settings#appearance

Uncheck the very last option "Site Icons"

This should be the top response. Just under it should be a DDG staffer telling us they will be turning this config option off by default starting with the the next release.

No, since it's incorrect. We're talking about the browser, not the search engine results.

I'm assuming that doesn't affect the browser, which is what this issue relates to.

Maybe you have to be logged in to DDG for this to work? Which if true feels that much worse.

What advantage does this give you? DDG just gave you a list of URLs, so how can it be "tracking" the results it just presented to you?

The issue, as I understand it, is that the Android app loads the favicon service for search results you actually open in the app.

Route icons.duckduckgo.com to null.

Sidenote: The more I use pi-hole the more I realise how essential it is!

Are you able to block youtube ads using pi-hole?

Sadly, not anymore - used to be the case quite a while ago, but not today anymore as the ads come from the same domains the videos are streamed from.

Those simpler popover-ads which can be closed clicking an X in the upper right corner still are blocked tho...

Spilling my secret tho (and YouTube execs hate me for it!): i block YouTube in my mind and only rarely go to it if i really need to watch a video (which, for me, is rarer than i ever thought it'd be).

https://invidio.us

Or mpv (for single videos, or local playlists), or mps-youtube, or youtube-dl.

It's complicated and a quickly moving target. I use pi-hole plus local browser blocking like uBlock origin.

Is there a difference between using pi-hole and edinting etc host on Windows? I've heard about pi-hole but I'm not sure what it does exactly.

This is essentially the same, but pi-hole gives you a nice UI, stats etc, and of course you can point all your machine at a pi-hole instead of editing the hosts file on each.

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