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Recommended hosts file blocklist ?

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Rich:
Hi PDP-8

--- Quote from: PDP-8 on October 20, 2021, 06:32:48 PM --- ... Hmm..  wonder how you guys get TC to reread and activate your new hosts file?
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I think the file gets consulted for every request. The  /etc/hosts  file resides in RAM so reading it is fast. I'm pretty sure
I've commented out entries and it took effect as soon as I refreshed the web page.

PDP-8:
YES!  Right on Rich.  Using bootlocal.sh was the key!

I tested by altering the modified hosts file, and yep - it gets consulted and picks up the change.

Something like this is SO PERFECT for TC with nary any performance penalty due to being in ram.  Outstanding.

CNK:
I don't have much faith in most hosts file blocklists myself, because they're manually generated and too easily get full of outdated entries while at the same time inevitably missing the latest changes.

The exception might be this, because there's an actual reasoning and method behind it:
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-tracker-radar/

The Git repo is around 2GB and doesn't contain a hosts file itself.

I wrote a simple script that just uses grep to pull out the host names who's JSON file contains a relevent category name, and it generates a hosts file. I haven't had time to test out using the hosts file yet though - I'm not sure how much stuff it might break when trying to browse Javascripty sites in Firefox.

I use NoScript in Firefox and use Dillo whenever possible anyway, though both approaches are still vulnerable to tracking pixels.

If anyone's interested I can try to remember to remember to post instructions for making a DDG Tracker Radar hosts file here once I get back to it one day.

gadget42:
when you get a chance that would be great!

gadget42:
KDE-Powering Qt's New Framework Lets Developers Bring Ads Into Their Apps

that headline caught my attention earlier this morning...

reference and some rabbitholes:

slashdot:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/01/22/1751259/kde-powering-qts-new-framework-lets-developers-bring-ads-into-their-apps

phoronix:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Digital-Advertising-1.0

and one of the phoronix comments mentioned:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/npm-bans-terminal-ads/

which then had this link:
https://github.com/kethinov/no-cli-ads

and the obligatory rabbithole(s):
[follow-the-white-rabbit]
https://www.zdnet.com/article/when-open-source-developers-go-bad/
[/follow-the-white-rabbit]

key words:
hosts file
pihole
firefox
https everywhere
noscript
privacy badger
umatrix
ubo-scope
ublock origin
minerblock
snowflake

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