DNS delegation: a sneaky trick to subvert third-party ad blocking

A report in The Register today discusses a trick that ad-slingers are starting to use to disguise third-party ads as first party ones: Bad news: ‘Unblockable’ web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much

Are you aware of/working on a solution to this? It looks to me that it might be hard to do in a Chromium-based browser like Brave, but I think that this definitely falls into the category of “things that Brave ought to protect people against”.

Feel free to move this question to the “Ad-blocking” category if appropriate, but it seems to me that this question is to general for that.

In the answer to this question: How to block first party ads? you stated that first-party ad-blocking in general wasn’t available in Brave, but I think that some measures against DNS delegation disguising the true origin of ads ought to be implemented if possible.

See; Unblockable first-party tracker spotted

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