# Following your links

**URL:** <https://community.bestlaptop.deals/t/following-your-links/126>\
**Category:** Off-Topic\
**Created:** [October 13, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://community.bestlaptop.deals/t/following-your-links/126 "2025-10-13T01:23:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Crazyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Crazyd](https://community.bestlaptop.deals/u/Crazyd)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://community.bestlaptop.deals/t/following-your-links/126/1 "2025-10-13T01:23:22Z")

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I use NextDNS for a DNS server; pretty sure they are blocking your links. Guess that’s the price I pay for blocking advertising DNS links and there is no easy way to turn it off. I’m not sure which DNS settings I actually changed, but just wanted to wish you well.

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**Author:** ![JustJosh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/community.bestlaptop.deals/justjosh/32/38_2.png) [@JustJosh](https://community.bestlaptop.deals/u/JustJosh)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.bestlaptop.deals/t/following-your-links/126/2 "2025-10-13T18:58:39Z")

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Yes, we’ve had that report before. Unfortunately its an industry wide issue with affiliate links. I definitely feel they are missused. People building website to farm affiliate links or sub-Reddits. It hurts genuine sites like ours, where we do actually get the laptops ourselves and painstakingly test them to provide good advice