Ad Blocking

Enhancing Our User Experience with Robust Ad Blocking

D-Network offers a completely free, safe, and user-friendly VPN service that distributes its marketing-funded revenue fairly among all of its stakeholders in a supply-and-demand open advertisement market.

Why we block external advertisements

D-Network includes strong ad blocking as a standard feature, intercepting unwanted advertisements before they reach the user's device, reducing clutter, increasing load times, and protecting privacy.

In short, ad blocking increases speed while also protecting user privacy by preventing malicious scripts from collecting data and effectively blocking phishing or scam attempts disguised as advertisements.

By removing all unwanted external advertisements, we also make our platform more appealing to both our users and internal advertisers, resulting in an ecosystem that is fair and beneficial to both sides.

How we block advertisements

• DNS Filtering When a user visits a website, DNS queries are initiated to resolve website domains into IP addresses. D-Network intercepts these queries and blocks all requests to known advertisement servers.

• Blacklist D-Network maintains a strict list of domains and IP addresses that are known or discovered to serve external advertisements and/or track user activity, which is constantly updated and blocked.

• Script Blocking Many advertisements are delivered using JavaScript or other scripting languages embedded in web pages; we prevent these dynamic and embedded ad scripts by filtering the delivery code.

• Integration of new open-source browser extensions Our dev-team is closely following promising open source efforts to integrate additional ad blocking in browsers; users can expect us to incorporate promising technology into our ecosystem in future updates.

User configuration and preferences

Users can configure their ad blocking preferences, allowing for greater flexibility and fairness across our ecosystem, as well as functionality tailored to specific user browsing habits.

By setting preferences and voting on ads in our ecosystem, our users directly influence what, which, and how advertisements are presented to them individually and as a collective group within our ecosystem.