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whitelist #860
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Hi Patrick @patrickdrd. We're an aggregator. We find high quality, well-curated hosts lists, merge them, dedupe the resultant list, and try to keep the list frequently updated and reasonably sized. We also adjudicate and petition, to some degree, with the curators, who may or may not agree with us. Please take this up with individual curators as I can't see the compelling reasons you may have, so I'm not inclined to petition for any of these. |
@patrickdrd reading trough your list....led me to this: |
@patrickdrd oh boi! That's lot of ad domains! |
well,
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fyi, they're not |
@patrickdrd Unblocking googletagservices.com and googtagmanager.com will enable over 50% tracking on the internet. What makes you think it's safe to whitelist? From Wikipedia: |
I've posted explanation here: |
very weird people around here?, |
I've got my own whitelist (1800 entries) and the above are in my whitelist for quite some time (and I've seen no ads at all), |
@dnmTX please do me a favor and go somewhere else to masturbate, please buddy! |
@patrickdrd Posting a bunch of domains and telling to whitelist them is not going to help unless a valid reason is given. I agree that This is what the documentation states:
Read more about it here. Did you know that softonic.com tried (and failed) to bundle adware with their own installer? Did you know that Quantserve, a product of Quantcast is the biggest audience targeting or targeted advertising company? This is just a few example of the domains present in your so called "whitelist".
Provide some information about those domains instead of posting rubbish comments like this. Have a nice day! |
instead of attacking my rubbish comments, you should attack your friend for filling the whole issue/page with his bullshit and which was the originator of all this... well, in my research the above domains are needed in various functions, |
you see, clever guy, because github and the internet is full of shitty lists |
Windows10 Update Without the follwing Whitelist Entrys Windows10 update can’t be completed. pihole -w settings-win.data.microsoft.com ok, go ahead and block the user's windows update, good job! |
@patrickdrd Hold your horses, Windows updates are never delivered via those domains. Microsoft documentation:
Link It is clearly mentioned here that, I'm not posting this out of thin air. It's from Microsoft itself. |
Steve @StevenBlack apologize up front as it's not related to the issue at hand here but it's just.... |
ok, ok, but the guys at discourse.pi-hole.net posted it, not me, anyway.. |
Thanks, everyone, for your input on this. This didn’t go very well so let’s learn from this, and move on. Closing. |
Can we at least put cdn.onesignal.com in whitelist? See the discussion in referenced issue. |
I’m not sure which list blocks onesignal- but these sections from their privacy policy Before I dig in, it’s important to understand that ‘clients’ in their policy means advertisers:
Ok, let’s start.
So on android devices it’s snooping on what apps you have installed and saving that to an online profile about you
Tracking your GPS location if it’s available- if not then it falls back on your WiFi location which is pretty much just as precise since it’s based on your WiFi MAC address
Ok so obviously it provides the information to the websites and apps that use their services- but the important part of this paragraph is that they are also providing the exact same data to their 3rd party advertisers- remember that’s clients is a grouped term.
Yup, so they are building profiles on people based on their location. This is a complete violation of privacy. These examples are innocuous enough- but what happens if you regularly attend a doctor? Are you sickly? What if it’s a specialist doctor- say proctologist’s. Now advertisers know that you have specific health issues. Your health information is highly sensitive and doctors have to follow strict guidelines to protect that information. But here is a “free” service that is able to accurately bypass those privacy safeguards- largely without the users knowledge or consent. Your health information is highly valuable information. Life Insurance and health plan providers could use this information to exclude you from their advertising- both have a financial interest in avoiding customers with health issues. Beyond the advertising issues, they could even use the information to deny you as a potential customer. How would you like being denied life insurance or health coverage because this service decided to put you in a ‘sickly’ category? Location privacy is a big deal. They could be tracking people that attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings- oh this person must like alcohol so add that to their online profile so that we can advertise it to them. The rest of the privacy policy is about how they use the data they have with data other people have to build as an exact profile as possible across services and devices- location, IP address, and email address are all used to help link profiles. Conclusion: this service is trash and deserves being blocked. The obvious sign that it’s trash is that it’s completely free to use. Websites and apps that include their services are selling their users out, all for some easy push notifications. |
no one thumbs-upped my Kitty GIF.That's just SAD 😢 |
Whitelisting |
This was already closed. Anyway. The only data source here that we can do reporting here is @StevenBlack's own list, that's the one he personally maintains while the others should not be reported here. (that's why the data sources has the update.json file that contains the issue link for their respective sites/repo) I think @StevenBlack can remove (or move to a separate repo so this repo is not flooded with whitelist/blacklist issues) the generated hosts file altogether so the py tool is only left for usage. |
the following are wrongly in hosts file and should be whitelisted in my opinion:
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