Sandra mentioned that some of the apps she uses have ads.
Urgh. I'm so used to an ad-free existence that this bugged me.
Alternative apps were not an immediate solution, so a few minutes watching our DNS servers' logs, and a few more minutes with Pi-hole, a cache flush, and, bingo, the problem is sorted... for now.
Something for a quiet bank holiday, perhaps...?
Neil Brown /
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2025-05-05 08:02:28
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wss://relay.mostr.pubPublished at
2025-05-05 08:02:28Event JSON
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