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Chrome AdBlock Joining Acceptable Ads Program (And Sold To Anonymous Company)
basscomm writes: Hot on the heels of the formation of the independent board to oversee "acceptable ads", users of the popular Chrome ad blocking extension, AdBlock, got notice that AdBlock is participating in the program, and that acceptable ads are being turned on by default. At the bottom of the announcement, buried in the fine print is word that AdBlock has been sold, but nobody will say to whom.
Sorry, adblock, time to let your product die and we will go on to a product that actually blocks ads
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
ABP was born out of the endless frustration of unwanted banners and spam. So once they start allowing it back in then i am betting someone will take over the torch and build a new blocker.
If you want your products sold, then make a good product! The forums and people will take care of the rest.
When you solely really on spam then your product must be crap or overpriced or redundant.
Seriously, if pages are annoying then there are 10.000 others to choose from. These guys need another business model..
Alphabet ?
I don't understand, is it for Chrome only? I use AdBlock with Safari, does it affect me or not?
I don't know if there are multiple entities named AdBlock or if all the same...
I use uBlock Origin. Works better than adblock. Flashblock, uBlock, and Ghostery. Nice fast load times.
They were sold to Adblock Plus.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/02/adblock_flogged_off_to_mystery_buyer/
Makes sense given the acceptable ads announcement
Take the money and run - don't blame him
AdBlock is being blocked by YouTube. If the YouTube video is trying to feed you adverts then they will block your viewing of the YouTube video until you switch off AdBlock. Google/YouTube are trying to promote the idea around the www to other websites. I use firewall rules to block oneclick AdWords. YouTube is trying other methods to force-feed you as well I like the challenge I have too much time on my hands I like blocking them. If somebody else doesn't you can use a program called YouTube-dl to download the videos to your download direction and watch whenever you like. YouTube has gone to war with AdBlock.
In the early days of Chrome one of the reasons I stayed with Mozilla was ad blockers. When Adblock Pro tried that trick on Mozilla I switched to Adblock Edge. I assume Chrome users will do the same or if they can't find a proper ad blocker will then switch browser.
I started blocking ads because animated GIFs were too distracting to my thought processes. Now blocking ads is simple Internet security 101, just way too dangerous not to, and despite 'acceptable ad' programs is still an attack vector with no benefits if left open.
The ad industry probably believes it can stop the growth of ad blocking by consigning the big ad blocking apps and hoping users either wont notice 'approved' ads creeping into their browsing experiencing or that they'll be too lazy to find a replacement. But this is not like changing the default search engine of a browser to increase search traffic - ad blocking users are a much more motivated group. Not to mention that waving greenmail in the front of AdBlock will only encourage other developers to create their own software to cash in on the largess.
Aside from being defeated by loads of different adblock blockers (as well as the standard http://blockadblock.com/ generated scripts) there are loads of networks like PageFair that bypass AdBlock anyway. So "letting" acceptable ads through strikes me as a best option in a losing battle.
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I bet they are all being offered a buy out by the same shady ad service just itching to bombard our phones and tablets, eating our data plans like cotton candy at the fair. Any opensource ones out there? You can make them stagnate with enough cash ( from the original crew, forks not withstanding ) but at least you cant 'buy' them.
https://github.com/chrisaljoud...
faster, more efficient, and doesnt have a guilty conscience about blocking ALL the ads.
while you're at it,
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ho...
block advertisers by null routing them.
Good people go to bed earlier.
and pay a guy to shoot apk in the fucking head?
Please rewrite that whole fucking thing in English. Thank you.
I'm all for acceptable ads and acceptable tracking, afterall we all liked the benefit we got from durable cookies in the early pre-cancerous stages of the internet. that sort of tracking is not inherently bad by itself. But then it metastisized and it became neccessary to block it. So yay for ad blockers.
But that just becomes an arms race. So enter "acceptable ads" in which certain ads are allowed in hopes of creating a viable not escalating equilibrium where the commercialization model of the internet is not soley based on pernicious forms of advertising. I don't know if this new equilibrium can be forced but as the new york times demonstrated the tracking and targeting consumes at least 1/3 of the web bandwidth we pay for, so it's worthy just to check that aspect.
But when it becomes commercialized like ad block or ghostery one feels like it's a symbiotic parasite. It leaves you vulnerable to smaller subset of actors who did nothing more than pay to have access to you, the meat being sold by ghostery and ad block. it's like paying off the somali pirates or highway robbers to let coiaches pass. I became the product. yet at the same time it gives me a free benefit.
Should I like this tapeworm that helps me shed unwanted pounds of bandwidth destroying ads and infective tracking systems? At the moment, the answer is there is no other answer.
Either way, letting in the big corp. ads deemed acceptable-for-cash or going nuclear on all ads indiscimiately, ultimately narrows the information I get.
However in one case, it limits which ads I see, and in the other it limits the profitability of sites trying to make a living with ad based bussiness models. I'd not want to choke off the free content I get, just to see fewer ads.
I think think acceptable ads, as competition heats up for the service will let me pick gate keepers that force advertisers not to chew up my bandwidth or "excessively" track me.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Adblock and Adblock Plus will now both ultimately take money in exchange for allowing ads. You can tell the agenda from the "default on" position.
So, can we get a list of stuff that DOESN'T do this? Maybe with links to the developers saying why not?
We can't edit posts on slashdot, normally for better, but this means I can't add to this list with responses. Still, respond please if you got'em!
The ONLY ones I know for sure are:
** uBlock Origin **- For Firefox and Chrome, this blocks a lot of privacy related things. This one seems like you can customize it, and the addon page tells you about other ad lists you can also apply. Importantly, the developer (gorhill on github) has had to deal with "acceptable ad" beggars, and shuts them down. The odds of this addon staying clean seem very high based on this.
Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webs...
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
I don't know if this works with popular privacy or usability forks of Firefox and Chrome, and maybe some Palemoons and Comodos and Waterfoxes and whatevers can chime in with details.
The old Adblock Edge was a solid Firefox addon, but discontinued with a message to use uBlock Origin. The somewhat similar dramafilled uBlock (without the "origin") I think has no acceptable ads either, but I have a hard time googling that stuff.
** uBlock ** - This and uBlock Origin share a relatively recent codebase, but there are some developer disagreements. I couldn't find any evidence that uBlock uses acceptable ads, however, so definitely listing it:
Chrome Store: https://chrome.google.com/webs...
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
*What else has no acceptable ad option*???
I'd even be ok counting ones that have one that is disabled by default, something that uBlock Origin has fought off successfully.
The best option, IMHO, is the hosts file, frankly. Be nice if we could work out some solid collaborative way to make my block discoveries help you with yours, etc., but it's just fraught with too many problems and potential black hat undertakings.
Still, it's pretty easy to just have a little app you can paste domains into that just appends your hosts file with Yet Another Reference to the Black Hole Of Data.
Well, under OS X and Linux it is. Not sure about Windows. But years ago, when I was using Windows, it did have a hosts file you could get at. Still true?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Why is APK so fucking obsessed with host files? Is this a rolling gag or something that I'm not aware of? Or does he just have a severe case of OCD and/or Asperger's?
I'm voting OCD/Asperger's. If he'd post once per thread, the idea might even be on topic and insightful. The idea, while not the intended use of /etc/hosts, isn't intrinsically bad: it's his relentless spamming of it, dozens of times times per thread, that's the problem.
Can APK Hosts File block APK Hosts File spam comments?
Perhaps there is a way to put the load, and the expectations, on the user.
You go to a website. If you desire a personalized experience, "click here" and then bookmark.
Resulting page is site.tld/longRandomGeneratedUniqueThing/restofurl.whatever
All links on the resulting page are set that way now. The site is responsible for keeping that "thing" associated with your preferences and etc., as well as generating the right links on all the pages you visit there. That's doable.
As long as you come and go from such a formatted URL, the site knows it's the same person.
If you don't do this, you get a non-personalized experience.
No cookies required. But it does require the user to be a little bit proactive if they want the experience to span multiple visits, because they'll have to bookmark. Otherwise, this visit will know it's them all the way across the visit, but when they leave... the info is either gone or buried in their history.
It's a bit clumsy, and it certainly isn't secure in the sense of others not being able to appear as that person and so forth, but "secure" surely isn't a word I'd use for cookie technology, either. It does allow for basic identity, and it does put control of it in the hands of the user. So for cases where the limitations are acceptable, seems like a reasonable approach.
If not this, then something else. But cookies and forwarding the browser all over creation should die in a fire. Somehow.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Is there some kind of hosts tweak I can use to block APK's spam?
Requiem for the American Dream
And you lost the argument.
9.) Protect vs. phish
They don't really play my kind of music, but they seem like reasonable people, and I'm pretty sure that they have nothing in particular against me. Why would I need protection from Phish?
Chrome AdBlock sold to AdBlcok Plus. This was news last Thrusday! Way to stay current Slashdot.
An excellent replacement for AdBlock and AdBlock Plus is uBlock Origin. They haven't sold out to advertisers, yet.
I don't know. I don't prefer host blocks because they break a lot of the web, and if they become ubiquitous they will be very easy for advertisers to work around in ways that make content retrieval very difficult. A programmatic solution has a lot of problems, but ultimately represents a more customizable way of getting the web the way the user wants to view it.
But APK isn't wrong. He's on a crusade, which makes him a giant sink of wasted text and nonsense, but he's not wrong. Deus Vult!
80% of the comments here are apk spam.. wtf
Even if they turn acceptable ads on, I wouldn't see the difference, because I only use adblock for the element blocker. The ads themselves are blocked directly in my router using a custom firewall script and a bunch of HOSTS lists.
So... yes or no? :D Your posts are a little tl;dr with too many transitions between bold/non-bold.
Requiem for the American Dream
fuck off apk
It's never hard to uncheck the box. But it's hard to subscribe to a service with perverted incentive.
slashdigg is tired of your shit. seriously just fuck off.
Buck Feta. You know what to do.
Keep "FoAmiNg-@-TeH-MouTh" as apk makes you run dry of your modpoints troll! You can't prove apk wrong. Apk wins against you whimps always and on every conceivable level there is. Not much of a contest considering apk's a genius and you're a pack of retarded microcephalic imbeciles.
For your sake, I hope this is all part of some elaborate joke :D
I'm going with "no there's no way to block slashdot spam via hosts files."
Requiem for the American Dream
"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" and you're forrest running from apk http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
Added to that, his posts look like standard spam. Where did he learn to write posts just like spammers?
Yah, your host file software (30k lines of code to manage a text file? WTF?) obviously doesn't work or it would be blocking you. You post more spam and ads for your software on here than other 3rd party ads. If your goal is to help cut down on spam and such, you're doing a really shitty job of it.
You've posted your stupid shit in here 25 times and counting (as of this comment's writing). Just get off the internet already apk.
Copy/Pasting your drivel over and over again doesn't make it any more true.
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
See subject, says it all for me. Especially you fools doing a "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. my fair challenge to "your kind" http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... in technically WEAK trolls - I say that since NONE OF YOU ever, EVER, validly technically proves what I state on hosts giving users more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity than ANY single browser addon there is, + hosts do so (and FAR MORE than INFERIOR browser addons) FAR MORE EFFICIENTLY!
* What I absolutely LOVE is CRUSHING FOOLS LIKE YOU (like I have before in YOU SPECIFICALLY, "forrest" -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )
APK
P.S.=> You're additionally welcome to write a BETTER program (but then again, YOU ARE A "ne'er-do-well" unskilled in the computer sciences mere TROLLING WORM, lol... I expect TOO MUCH of you sometimes) that's hosted & RECOMMENDED by the very best antimalware under the sun @ Malwarebytes' hpHosts -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
... apk
You seem to have let trying to block advertising define your life a hell of a lot more than dealing with a few ads might have. Frankly, a loony for a loony cause. But hey, I guess if it helps you feel like you're contributing to something important ..
"Old man yells at systemd"
See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
FREE & not 'souled-out' to advertisers, + adds speed, security, & reliability, doing FAR more w/ FAR less, more efficiently vs. browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' redirect security issues!
It obtains its data vs. online threats & adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community!
It SPEEDS YOU UP 2 ways (adblocking + locally cached in RAM favorites placed @ the TOP of hosts for fastest resolution speed), whereas by way of comparison, other "so-called security 'solutions'" SLOW YOU DOWN!
It does all that using something you already have vs. "bolting on browser addons 'MOAR' in addons that's usermode slower & increases messagepassing, cpu + ram overuse overheads!
* :)
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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"The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"...
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
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Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
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ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
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Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
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Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
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What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject: Known malicious sites &/or botnets than I do ads but ads = a HUGE source of infection ala http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... + http://apple.slashdot.org/comm...
So I'm also "multitasking" not only stopping ads from stealing your speed + bandwidth or hitting runnings into capping walls by stopping ads alone, but also their malicious payloads since open bid advertising networks are the cause of malware makers abusing advertising.
Why do you think CISCO even said "clicking ads more dangerous than going to a gay pornsite" for?
APK
P.S.=> I'm contributing to giving folks online more speed, security, reliability & anonymity - how about you, off topic troll?
Nope - ZERO outta you, a zero yourself...
So call me ALL THE NAMES YOU LIKE which aren't true, but myself NOW CALLING YOU A "ne'er-do-well" IS TRUE since you can't show shit on that note chump, lol... apk
Apk literally lost nothing (adding even more you can't touch). He has 16 points you can't prove wrong troll.
Blocking ads is mathematically impossible, as it is equivalent to the Halting Problem.
What we can hope for is properly implemented multi-layer defense (ad blocking + host-based blocks + script blocker + cookie blocker + ...). We also need to actively poison the Big Data well of collectible information by feeding it disinformation.
I understand there's no real privacy on the Internet, but there can be Mutually Assured Destruction. You spy on me and I attack you.
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
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Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
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ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
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Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
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Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
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What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
TO REMOVE THE BOGUS OPTIONAL TELEMETRY HOTFIXES MANUALLY:
Open command prompt
Type powershell
issue these commands
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TO SEE WHAT ONES ARE INSTALLED:
get-hotfix -id KB3035583, KB2952664,KB2976978,KB3021917,KB3044374,KB2990214
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TO UNINSTALL THEM (these for sure, per url next below):
wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /uninstall /kb:2952664 /uninstall /kb:2976978 /uninstall /kb:3021917 /uninstall /kb:3044374 /uninstall /kb:2990214
wusa
wusa
wusa
wusa
wusa
per http://www.ghacks.net/2015/04/...
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DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH (these uninstalled properly):
KB3068708 (Telemetry)
KB3075249 (Telemetry)
KB3080149 (Telemetry)
KB3022345 (Telemetry)
KB2977759 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation)
KB3021917 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparatioon + Telemetry)
KB3035583 (Windows 10 upgrade preparation)
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I GOT "NOT INSTALLED ON THIS COMPUTER" ON THESE INITIALLY SINCE I HAD IE11 installed (PROBABLY ONES FOR IE9/10/11 &/or Windows 10 (I use Win7 here)):
KB3075249
KB3080149
KB2505438
* KB2670838 (See IE 9/10/11 notes below)
KB3044374
KB2990214 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation)
KB2505438 (Although it claims to fix performance issues, it often breaks fonts)
KB2976978 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation)
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I GOT "NOT INSTALLED ON THIS COMPUTER" ON THESE (*PRIOR* TO PULLING KB2670838):
* KB2670838 (This update often breaks AERO on Windows 7 and makes some fonts on websites fuzzy. A Windows 7 specific update only
(do not install IE10 or 11 otherwise it will be bundled with them, IE9 is the max version you should install to avoid this).
THESE RE-APPEAR AFTER UNINSTALLING IE11 RIGHT ON RESTARTING & CHECKING WINDOWS UPDATE:
* KB2952664 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation prior to IE9/10/11 install)
* KB3021917 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation prior to IE9/10/11 install)
* KB3068708 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation prior to IE9/10/11 install)
* KB3092627 (Windows 10 Upgrade preparation prior to IE9/10/11 install)
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run cmd as administrator
sc stop Diagtrack
sc delete Diagtrack
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*Task Scheduler Library:
Everything under "Application Experience"
Everything under "Autochk"
Everything under "Customer Experience Improvement Program"
Under "Disk Diagnostic" only the "Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector"
Under "Maintenance" "WinSAT"
"Media Center" and click the "status" column, then select all non-disabled entries and disable them.
*services.msc:
"Remote Registry" to "Disabled" instead of "Manual".
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IMPORTANT ONE IS GROUP POLICY (gpedit.msc):
Go to Control Panel, Administrative Templates, System
Internet Communication Management, Internet Communication Settings
ENABLE (to turn it on, it is a disabler)
"Turn off Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program"
(IF YOU HAVE Windows "home" (less than Pro models), export the section of the registry involved from a Pro system & merge the .reg file you exported - should work well enough to do the job here for those of you using that lesser model of Windows)
APK
P.S.=> Yes, it's THAT easy to get rid of for what Microsoft's doing on Win7/8/10 spying on you - in less than 5 minutes of your time tops... apk
See subject: Even if by some miracle sites served their own ads (better than infection by them ala http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... + http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... ) from the same address as the server, which they don't since advertisers don't trust webmaster ALLEGED clickcounts on ads?
Guess what? TWO GOOD THINGS RESULT:
1.) Hosts still get you more speed & reliability via hardcoded favorite sites where you spend MOST of your time online (nobody surfs the ENTIRE web)!
(Like probably 95++% of it)
&
2.) HOSTS ALWAYS WILL BE ABLE TO BLOCK MALWARE. BOTNETS, PHISH/SPAM
(As most of its served by host-domain names which hosts can block)
* For IP address served ones, by far the lesser used, use your firewall rules!
APK
P.S.=> Be smarter & more efficient by USING WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE NATIVELY BUILT INTO YOUR SYSTEMS - why?
Well, it's faster + more proven & OPERATES IN KERNELMODE speed vs. slower usermode with excessive RAM + CPU usage & messagepassing overheads bloat on already SLOWER usermode browsers + hosts & firewalls also OPERATE LONG BEFORE ADDONS DO1
(... & Hosts do all that, for FAR Less resources consumed too - bonus!)... apk
Cows shit milk?
They look more like truth and facts you trolls can't validly technically prove wrong. All you do is troll off topic, fail, and downmod apk. Doesn't matter. We see his posts and then he has no post limits and posts again and runs you dry of your downmod points you abuse. Do you think we all don't see that? Guess again. You're only fooling yourself.
Prior to the rise of advertising, almost all sites were 'independent.'
---- and you discovered them by thumbing through the printed pages of the modestly sized Internet Yellow Pages, guide books and magazines of the era..
It was a geek paradise defined off-campus by the limits of the dial-up modem, arcane and frustrating client software and services that were only beginning to offer affordable flat-rate monthly billing,
I said "spamposting". The word has more meaning than just marketing. Certainly, on most forums you get IP banned for posting the same text over and over again, and the offense is called "spamming".
My main concern with a hosts based method is that if *everyone* moved to that, advertisers would sidestep around it. Already they are looking for ways to avoid the existing generation of ad blockers by injecting ads that appear to be served from the main server- once the ad servers solve "trust issues" with the "content" guys, they'll be able to have the server you think you want data from scoop an ad up and serve it with the content. While that will require the addon guys to do more work, it will shut down the hosts solutions completely.
That being said, obviously hosts solutions are effective. I never disputed that. But I made a post saying "list things with no acceptable ads", and there's a lot about the apk engine I can't easily google. I have no idea what is (and is not) added to its blocklist, for instance.
You sure advertise a lot. You're worse than a full-screen flash ad.
CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
Does your hosts file work when client is using a proxy server?
Don't tell me to edit the hosts file on proxy server.
Hosts is for apks.apks say hooooosts!!hoooooosts!!hoooosts says the APK.you all APK cows.
Ads. Switched to a combo of privacy badger & Adguard.
Does your hosts file work when client is using a proxy server? Don't tell me to edit the hosts file on proxy server.
You're obviously APK, but try this:
One of his points is that a hosts file can protect against spam, which is about as likely as aspirin protecting against spam unless you're hosting your own mail server (and who the hell would run a mail server on Windows?).
As for the rest, hosts blocking can't block the "please donate/subscribe to us" banners on sites, and blocking trackers can break various sites. That's fine when you're using something like Ghostery/uBlock, where you can temporarily turn it off for a specific page (or even whitelist just one tracker on one site, i.e. whitelist New Relic on New Relic). A hosts file is a sledge hammer approach.
APK's standard response (those bits that are comprehensible) seem to revolve around these plugins using too much memory/CPU time. If I was concerned about that I'd still be using a green screen terminal. The standard solution doesn't require administrative rights, can block more, and can be turned off if it breaks a site (which means the lists can be very expansive if you want).
APK's solution is like looking at a light bulb and deciding what the world really needs is a brighter candle.
The right to protest the State is more sacred than the State.
Since there is NO advertising this is acceptable, I expect it it to do exactly what it says, and block all adverts. If it doesn't do this, it will not be considered to be working properly, and it will just get deleted from my machine.
more likely advertiser will buy all adblock stuff around and slowly expand the acceptable ad programs until it becomes useless. If I learned one thing from history is that advertiser will go nuclear and escalate very quickly to the point of self destruction by obnoxiousness (pop up and pop under came relatively quickly in existence and became the plague they are, same with audio video ads).
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
When that message came a few days ago, it told me that I can keep all ads blocked as it used to do, so I unchecked that acceptable stuff option and everything is as usual. I just hope it stays that way :)
HOSTS needs to die. Anyone that uses it for any purpose other than development or debugging is a moron.
Be nice if we could work out some solid collaborative way to make my block discoveries help you with yours
So like a DNS blacklist then? Or just
*.cn
*.ru
*.facebook.com
You and APK should go jump off a bridge together.
I probably shouldn't anymore since its owned by a crook now.
If a spam source is a hostname served one and blocked in hosts then it is blocked.
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject: The guys from Malwarebytes' hphosts who recommend & host my program here http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... actively update vs. that a LOT!
Those guys (with help from Henry Hertz Hobbitt from hostfile.org, this guy is GOOD, really good @ it) more regularly on their end in the data!
That's since that beats that to the punch quickly than myself recompiling!
See, my filters in my code?
They have gotten BIG (10k lines easily of 30k total in the program fully error trapped) against that, & SO big, that I literally had to write a program to WRITE MY PROGRAM in the filter section, lol!
(Plus, later during rebuilds, I add their AND MY filters I find OCCASIONALLY that might 'break' say, a site captcha logon (which we've hit before & correct against thus...).
* Nicest part is, hosts are EASILY HAND-EDITED & the data is EASY TO UNDERSTAND, far moreso than adblock regex or DNS rules tables - massively LESS complexity & easy understanding!
(Especially since my program produces a host minus comment bloat & alphabetically sorted, even notepad.exe's edit menu FIND function can edit the hosts file for you vs such offending entires you may not like).
APK
P.S.=>
"But APK isn't wrong" - by cfalcon (779563) on Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:11PM (#50657891)
Thanks, & I know - what evidences it for me? Well, easy:
Trolls ALWAYS "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. this FAIR CHALLENGE I put to them to validly technically prove my points on hosts wrong here http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
They NEVER can, it's impossible - lol... I love it!
See subject: Validly technically prove my points on hosts wrong (clearly you can't) -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... and all you can manage is to "downmod" my posts (abusing modpoints, so I just EASILY get trolls doing it that like clearly inferior products to BLOW ALL THEIR MODPOINTS, running them dry of them, & I just repost again afterwards, winning as per usual on MY part since YOU CAN'T GET THE BETTER OF ME proving me validly technically wrong (impossible) listed below, lol...
* :)
(Yes, it's THAT EASY FOR ME, on all fronts noted above... lol!)
Lastly: It appears all you can do is issue abused downmods but not prove me wrong http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... + http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... & http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
APK
P.S.=> Now, you just KNOW that I've just GOTTA say it, now don't you? Ah, but of COURSE you do! Here 'tis (in my own "inimitiable style"):
THIS? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" & it always is vs. INFERIOR DOLTS that infest /. ... lol!
NO LIMITS HERE BOYS -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"No scenario? I see every scenario - I see 50 scenarios! That what it does, Karl: IT PUTS ME 50 MOVES AHEAD OF YOU..."
... apk
See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
FREE & not 'souled-out' to advertisers, + adds speed, security, & reliability, doing FAR more w/ FAR less, more efficiently vs. browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' redirect security issues!
It obtains its data vs. online threats & adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community!
It SPEEDS YOU UP 2 ways (adblocking + locally cached in RAM favorites placed @ the TOP of hosts for fastest resolution speed), whereas by way of comparison, other "so-called security 'solutions'" SLOW YOU DOWN!
It does all that using something you already have vs. "bolting on browser addons 'MOAR' in addons that's usermode slower & increases messagepassing, cpu + ram overuse overheads!
* :)
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
---
"The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"...
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
---
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
---
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject: It's free - You /.'ers prove me wrong for once instead of downmodding my posts? I wouldn't repost - that's to SPITE the shitheads doing it showing them I can burn them outta modpoints easily & the repost, easily "nullifying" their 1 effete 'weapon' of the weasel!
(& they can't stop me there either, or validly technically prove my points on hosts giving users more speed, security, reliability & anonymity, doing FAR MORE for FAR LESS resources consumed + less complexity).
---
Good Engineering is DOING MORE with LESS - & I'm using what you ALREADY NATIVELY HAVE in hosts to do so combined with firewalls for IP address served threats etc.!
(I use hosts files vs. host-domain name served ads & malware/botnets etc. which is BY FAR the most prevalent type since fastflux works for botnet herders & stopping IP address threats @ higher levels like ICANN etc. is cake for them once known)
It's smarter & BETTER ENGINEERING by far vs. STUPIDLY & ILLOGICALLY "bolting on 'MoAr'" that doesn't DO AS MUCH & yet USES MORE + operates in slower usermode vs. hosts in kernelmode which operate way, Way, WAY before browser addons ever do too - yet using less in resources AND DOING FAR MORE FOR YOU in added speed, security, reliability + anonymity...
* That, no matter HOW you cut it, is STUPID & ILLOGICAL to do...
APK
P.S.=> Anyhow, thanks for telling me I am right here:
"But APK isn't wrong" - by cfalcon (779563) on Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:11PM (#50657891)
Thanks, & I know - what evidences it for me? Well, easy:
Trolls ALWAYS "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. this FAIR CHALLENGE I put to them to validly technically prove my points on hosts wrong here http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... - they NEVER do, lol... I love it!
... apk
See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
FREE & not 'souled-out' to advertisers, + adds speed, security, & reliability, doing FAR more w/ FAR less, more efficiently vs. browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' redirect security issues!
It obtains its data vs. online threats & adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community!
It SPEEDS YOU UP 2 ways (adblocking + locally cached in RAM favorites placed @ the TOP of hosts for fastest resolution speed), whereas by way of comparison, other "so-called security 'solutions'" SLOW YOU DOWN!
It does all that using something you already have vs. "bolting on browser addons 'MOAR' in addons that's usermode slower & increases messagepassing, cpu + ram overuse overheads!
* :)
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
---
"The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"...
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
FREE & not 'souled-out' to advertisers, + adds speed, security, & reliability, doing FAR more w/ FAR less, more efficiently vs. browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' redirect security issues!
It obtains its data vs. online threats & adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community!
It SPEEDS YOU UP 2 ways (adblocking + locally cached in RAM favorites placed @ the TOP of hosts for fastest resolution speed), whereas by way of comparison, other "so-called security 'solutions'" SLOW YOU DOWN!
It does all that using something you already have vs. "bolting on browser addons 'MOAR' in addons that's usermode slower & increases messagepassing, cpu + ram overuse overheads!
* :)
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
---
"The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"...
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
---
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
---
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can ghostery do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communique to C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
11.) Get you by a dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (e.g. stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu + memory use vs. addons
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on Ghostery doing all that let alone as well as hosts do!
APK
P.S.=> Addons do FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts by way of comparison, do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
---
Addons add complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
ClarityRay DETECTS browser addons like Ghostery & blocks them (not hosts) via native browser methods.
---
What's better than ghostery by FAR?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Bypass dns blocks
12.) Bypass dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antiviruses in BOTH a 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
You can't touch the 16 points I list in favor of custom hosts files adding more speed, security, reliability & anonymity http://slashdot.org/comments.p... fool...
* :)
(Nobody can... fact!)
APK
P.S.=> You're unable to validly technically prove ALL OF MY POINTS I note above wrong & you RAN 'forrest'... & you certainly can't create a better program than mine is either you waste of life troll... apk
Lol that's what I did. But I control the proxy server. You could also edit the hosts file on the DNS server. Which I own as well on my network. Don't rely on other people is the short answer.
I have learned, it is just best to ignore him. He uses our +modded posts to be visible, every time we respond to him, it is his way of getting around being an AC with 0 or -1 modding.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Yeah, all it takes is the ad networks to use IPs in sites instead of DNS, and APKs hosts files can't block it anymore.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Kaminsky redirect poisoning - 99.999% of ISP DNS aren't patched vs. it.
Open DNS resolvers (NOT OpenDNS) get exploited by malware ALL THE TIME!
Rogue DNS servers are another form of DNS exploit (even in routers, not just your system's IP stack settings).
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Hosts combined w/ OpenDNS compliment one other.
By using hosts with favorite sites you hardcode in them YOU AVOID ALL THOSE DNS SECURITY ISSUES ABOVE easily!
I don't resolve 'every host-domain there is' via hosts, only my favorites @ top of hosts (20 of them beating indexing past 2++ million records).
It's where ANYONE spends MOST OF THEIR TIME online - & it's faster + more efficient vs. calling to remote DNS servers.
Placement of favs thus, for FAST RESOLUTION from memory (hosts are cached like any file is), additionally saves CPU cycles, RAM, + I/O turning off the slower usermode clientside DNS cache service, instead opting for the kernelmode diskcache (no context switch overhead to the IP stack either this way).
The rest of my hosts files' entries are 3,782,195++ blocked entries vs. malware & ads of many kinds.
I use REMOTE FILTERING DNS SERVERS that help block out malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains via DNSBLs (not locally here as a separate redundant wasteful recursive server or a service/daemon).
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OpenDNS:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
---
It LIGHTENS remote DNS loads - admins of 'em should like that! Especially since DNS goes down a LOT!
How do I make my hosts (& do reverse dns pings for FAV sites for faster, more reliable, & safer connections)?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
APK
P.S.=> Plus, locally setup DNS eats more cpu cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O needlessly (when hosts can do the job locally with less complexity + room for exploit, actually COMPLIMENTING remote dns) & MORE ELECTRICAL POWER (especially if setup as a separate machine)... apk
Since none of you can validly technically prove my points on hosts wrong here http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
* :)
(You know it - I KNOW IT - heck, anyone reading with 1/2 a brain KNOWS it...)
APK
P.S.=> Yes, it's THAT obvious... apk
This needs an upmod, that is at least funny if not also insightful.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
See subject: You can't validly technically prove all my points on hosts wrong http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... so you downmod them to "hide" them!
(When everyone sees them anyway since most here browse well below +1 default moderation threshold - so that's pointless & weak on YOUR part troll)
OR
I just repost again (no limits on that here unlike most ac posters) NULLIFYING YOUR 1 EFFETE "weapon" & @ the same time, BURNING YOU OUT OF THEM eventually (so the next person isn't a victim of your bullshit tactics - BUT YOU ARE THE VICTIMS OF MY CRUSHING THE LIFE OUT OF YOU PUBLICLY HERE THOUGH, see link below regarding YOU specifically, lol).
APK
P.S.=> It's THAT simple Coren22 - lol, & YOU CAN'T STAND IT that I've easily outthought, outsmarted, outfoxed, & just plain OUTED you & yours, in weak trolls (especially wannabe security gurus like YOU -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ) as well as exposing that you're nothing more than a BY ROTE MENIAL who couldn't write a program FOR SECURITY to save his life... YOU? You don't have what it takes in skills in computing & you KNOW it... prove otherwise! Hell security companies take fixes from me & host + RECOMMEND my wares: How about you, wannabe security man? ZERO... apk
See subject: You can't validly technically prove my points on hosts wrong http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... so you downmod them to "hide" them (everyone sees them anyway since most here browse well below +1 default moderation threshold - so that's pointless & weak on YOUR part troll)
OR
I just repost again (no limits on that here unlike most ac posters) NULLIFYING YOUR 1 EFFETE "weapon" & @ the same time, BURNING YOU OUT OF THEM (so the next person isn't a victim of your bullshit tactics - BUT YOU ARE THE VICTIMS OF MY CRUSHING THE LIFE OUT OF YOU PUBLICLY HERE THOUGH, lol).
WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED TO DO AFTER I SCHOOL THE HELL OUT OF YOUR SORRY LAME WEAK ASS IS TO RUN!
You know it, I know it - everyone reading does - & the link below proves it better than anything else does!
APK
P.S.=> It's THAT simple Coren22 - lol, & YOU CAN'T STAND IT that I've easily outthought, outsmarted, outfoxed, & just plain OUTED you & yours, in weak trolls (especially wannabe security gurus like YOU -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ) as well as exposing that you're nothing more than a BY ROTE MENIAL who couldn't write a program FOR SECURITY to save his life... YOU? You don't have what it takes in skills in computing & you KNOW it... prove otherwise! Hell security companies take fixes from me & host + RECOMMEND my wares: How about you, wannabe security man? ZERO... apk
See subject: *try* all your "theoreticals" but they aren't reality - firewalls work then, hosts still get you speed too (hardcodes) & WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ISN'T REALITY MORON, lol... & hosts still stop malwares/botnets served up that way (the majority way vs. by IP addres by FAR & reasons are below for that)
Coren22 = The boy from theoretical "phantasy land" & wannabe security guru (see ps below)... lol!
CLUE/FACT:
The majority of ads AND ONLINE THREATS are served up by host-domain names since blowing them out by IP address is very easy for ICANN/IANA etc. forever dusting those as known bad ones
(... whereas by comparison, host-domain names are EASILY MIGRATED to other hosting providers to do "dirty work", ala "fastflux" botnets...)
APK
P.S.-> That's WHY host-domain names are used by FAR over IP addresses dolt (& you call yourself a "security" person? I showed EVERYONE 'what's-what' on YOU there too -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... lol...
(Fact: You're a no accomplishments of any good note done by yourself wannabe by rote unskilled limited MENIAL that you are - security companies HOST & RECOMMEND my programs, & other security companies TAKE MY FIXES FOR THEIR WARES - what about you? ZERO... lol! )
Kaminsky redirect poisoning - 99.999% of ISP DNS aren't patched vs. it.
Open DNS resolvers (not OpenDNS) get exploited by malware ALL THE TIME!
Rogue DNS servers are another form of DNS exploit (even in routers not just system IP stack settings).
* Using hosts with favorite sites you hardcode in them YOU AVOID ALL THOSE DNS SECURITY ISSUES ABOVE easily & THIS RESOLVES FAR FASTER THAN CALLING TO REMOTE DNS SERVERS (especially exploited or downed ones noted (dns goes down a LOT)).
---
Hosts combined w/ OpenDNS compliment one other.
I don't resolve 'every host-domain there is' via hosts, only my favorites @ top of hosts (20 of them beating indexing past 2++ million records).
It's where ANYONE spends MOST OF THEIR TIME online - & it's faster + more efficient vs. calling to remote DNS servers.
Placement of favs thus, for FAST RESOLUTION from memory (hosts are cached like any file is), additionally saves CPU cycles, RAM, + I/O turning off the slower usermode clientside DNS cache service, instead opting for the kernelmode diskcache (no context switch overhead to the IP stack either this way).
The rest of my hosts files' entries are 3,782,195++ blocked entries vs. malware & ads of many kinds.
I use REMOTE FILTERING DNS SERVERS that help block out malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains via DNSBLs (not locally here as a separate redundant wasteful recursive server or a service/daemon).
---
OpenDNS:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
---
It LIGHTENS remote DNS loads - admins of 'em should like that! Especially since DNS goes down a LOT!
How do I make my hosts (& do reverse dns pings for FAV sites for faster, more reliable, & safer connections)?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
APK
P.S.=> Plus, locally setup DNS eats more cpu cycles, RAM, & I/O needlessly (when hosts can do the job w/ less complexity + room for exploit, actually COMPLIMENTING remote dns) & MORE ELECTRICAL POWER (especially if setup as a separate machine)... apk
See subject: Even if by some miracle sites served their own ads (better than infection by them ala http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... + http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... ) from the same address as the server, which they don't since advertisers don't trust webmaster ALLEGED clickcounts on ads?
Guess what? TWO GOOD THINGS RESULT:
1.) Hosts still get you more speed & reliability via hardcoded favorite sites where you spend MOST of your time online (nobody surfs the ENTIRE web)!
(Like probably 95++% of it)
&
2.) HOSTS ALWAYS WILL BE ABLE TO BLOCK MALWARE. BOTNETS, PHISH/SPAM
(As most of its served by host-domain names which hosts can block)
* For IP address served ones, by far the lesser used, use your firewall rules!
APK
P.S.=> Be smarter & more efficient by USING WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE NATIVELY BUILT INTO YOUR SYSTEMS - why?
Well, it's faster + more proven & OPERATES IN KERNELMODE speed vs. slower usermode with excessive RAM + CPU usage & messagepassing overheads bloat on already SLOWER usermode browsers + hosts & firewalls also OPERATE LONG BEFORE ADDONS DO1
(... & Hosts do all that, for FAR Less resources consumed too - bonus!)... apk
Kaminsky redirect poisoning - 99.999% of ISP DNS aren't patched vs. it.
Open DNS resolvers (not OpenDNS) get exploited by malware A LOT!
Rogue DNS servers are DNS exploit (even in routers not just system IP stack settings).
* Using hosts w/ fav sites you hardcode in 'em YOU AVOID ALL THOSE DNS SECURITY ISSUES ABOVE easily & IT RESOLVES FAR FASTER THAN CALLING TO REMOTE DNS SERVERS (especially exploited or downed ones noted (dns goes down a LOT)).
---
Hosts combined w/ OpenDNS compliment one other.
I don't resolve 'every host-domain there is' via hosts, only my favs @ top of hosts (20 of 'em beating indexing past 2++ million records).
It's where ANYONE spends MOST OF THEIR TIME online - & it's faster + more efficient vs. calling to remote DNS servers.
Placement of favs thus, for FAST RESOLUTION from memory locally (hosts cache like any file) additionally saves CPU cycles, RAM, + I/O turning off a slower usermode clientside DNS cache service instead opting for the kernelmode diskcache (no context switch overhead to the IP stack either this way).
The rest of my hosts files' entries are 3,782,195++ blocked entries vs. malware & ads of many kinds.
I use REMOTE FILTERING DNS SERVERS blocking out malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains via DNS blocking (not locally here as a separate redundant wasteful recursive server or a service/daemon).
---
OpenDNS:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
---
It LIGHTENS remote DNS loads - admins of 'em should like it! Especially since DNS goes down a LOT!
How do I make my hosts (& do reverse dns pings for FAV sites for faster, more reliable, & safer connections)?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
With much easier understood & edited data vs. DNS rules by far.
APK
P.S.=> Locally setup DNS eats more cpu, RAM, & I/O needlessly (hosts do the job w/ less complexity + room for exploit, actually COMPLIMENTING remote dns) & MORE ELECTRICAL POWER (especially if setup as a separate machine)... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
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ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
---
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (for reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dns blocks
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs. addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it dumping addons in use in browsers via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job by default http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought out adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity in a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overhead vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER vs. hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antivirus programs in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject: There's no native browser method for it like there is for detecting & blocking browser addon users. Hosts operate way, Way, WAY BEFORE addons ever do, with less resource consumption & complexity doing FAR MORE for FAR LESS... no questions asked.
SO YOU KNOW - I can't be "banned" here... impossible.
There's only 1 semi-possible way they could do it - do you KNOW what it is, in webserver software?
I do... & I can get around that too, lol!
APK
P.S.=> Lastly: I'm merely stating facts & when the losers here can't prove those facts from reputable sources wrong? They downmod my posts to TRY "hide them" via effete downmods I merely post again vs. burning them out of their modpoints that get abused for trying to snuff my posts from sight since they can't validly & technically prove me wrong - they stop that? I wouldn't REPOST - So, in the end?
I always win, inevitably... apk
...when he said "another one bites the dust."
See subject: Malicious payload links in spam (there usually always is one) - yes, even junkmail's useful to me in hosts.
APK
P.S.=> Block those? You can't get burned by a fire you can't touch either... apk
You were demolished when you were exposed for not knowing what a DNSBL is. Excuse me now while I laugh at you some more.
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
---
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
---
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (for reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dns blocks
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs. addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it dumping addons in use in browsers via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job by default http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought out adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity in a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overhead vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER vs. hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antivirus programs in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject: Vs. that & personnel from Malwarebytes' hphosts who RECOMMEND & host my program http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... actively update vs. that occurring - A LOT!
Those guys (w/ help from Henry Hertz Hobbitt from hostfile.org, this guy is GOOD - really good @ it) more regularly on their end in the data!
Since that beats it to the punch quickly (vs. myself recompiling) in the data imported itself!
See, my filters in my code have gotten BIG (10k lines easily of 30k total in the program fully error trapped) against that, & SO big, that I literally had to write a program to WRITE MY PROGRAM in the filter section, lol!
(Plus, later during rebuilds, I add their new + MY new filters I find OCCASIONALLY that might 'break' say, a site captcha logon (which we've hit before & correct against thus...))
* Nicest part is, hosts are EASILY HAND-EDITED & the data is EASY TO UNDERSTAND, far moreso than adblock regex or DNS rules tables - massively LESS complexity & easy understanding!
(Especially since my program produces a host minus comment bloat & alphabetically sorted, even notepad.exe's edit menu FIND function can edit the hosts file for you vs such offending entires you may not like).
APK
P.S.=>
"But APK isn't wrong" - by cfalcon (779563) on Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:11PM (#50657891)
Thanks, & I know - what evidences it for me? Well, easy: Trolls ALWAYS "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. this FAIR CHALLENGE I put to them to validly technically prove my points on hosts wrong here http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... - they NEVER do validly technically prove that wrong &, lol... I love it!
... apk
See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
FREE & not 'souled-out' to advertisers, + adds speed, security, & reliability, doing FAR more w/ FAR less, more efficiently vs. browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' redirect security issues!
It obtains its data vs. online threats & adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community!
It SPEEDS YOU UP 2 ways (adblocking + locally cached in RAM favorites placed @ the TOP of hosts for fastest resolution speed), whereas by way of comparison, other "so-called security 'solutions'" SLOW YOU DOWN!
It does all that using something you already have vs. "bolting on browser addons 'MOAR' in addons that's usermode slower & increases messagepassing, cpu + ram overuse overheads!
* :)
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
---
"The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"...
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
See subject: Proxomitron - a proxy that works with hosts http://codeverge.com/grc.secur...
(For those that feel the need to illogically "Bolt-On-'MoAr'" for no reason that is, adding complexity + resource consumption for bad ROI - when what you have already built-in natively in hosts + firewalls do it all pretty much, for more speed/security/reliability/anonymity from 1 file than "all of Humpty Dumpty's Men" in other "so-called 'solutions'" do that SLOW YOU DOWN - hosts speed you up in ways no single of them can, for less, with what you already have...)
APK
P.S.=> Always a pleasure slamming the mouths of trolls shut easily via truth & fact... apk
See subject: I diffuse the bomb, & email filters vs. it (hats off to MS - theirs is GOOD in hotmail/outlook.com) - totally "gone with the dawn"...
* :)
(... & so are you, easily... it's "what I do/how I roll")
APK
P.S.=> My subsequent posts in response will further evidence it (I title them "The Self-Destruction of AndyMadigan" - another RIT dolt I've dismantled publicly for thinking he could get the better of me & failed hugely - lol, especially considering GOOGLE OWNS VIRUSTOTAL (head doesn't know what the ass is doing it seems in your implications that way, eh? Good - works for me, thanks - I even 'held off' vs. other trolls here on /. today, saving the BEST of 'yours truly' utterly dismantling you easily...)... apk
"uBlock is using 33MB of RAM" - by andymadigan (792996) on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:31PM (#49902053)
Inefficient: Hosts @ 3-11mb w/ current data & does things adblock variants can't & U RAN FROM IT http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... ).
UBlock uses 63++ MB & AdBlock = 128mb++ -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
BEST UBlock's done = 38mb/ABP = 64mb -> http://www.extremetech.com/wp-... From http://www.extremetech.com/wp-...
* See 'p.s.' below - Says all (& I didn't do the saying!)
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"which blocks more ads? Answer: uBlock/Adblock" by andymadigan (792996) on Sunday June 14, 2015 @12:04AM (#49907001)
WRONG - "Almost ALL Ads Blocked"'s PAID NOT TO by default-> http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/...
&
ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
UBlock/Adblock = far less efficient on CPU & RAM (added messagepassing, SLOW usermode vs. hosts in kernelmode) & NEITHER does a fraction of what hosts do in more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity.
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"your system blocks fewer ads" by andymadigan (792996) on Sunday June 14, 2015 @12:04AM (#49907001)
See above: + hosts do MORE w/ less via 1st link above!
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"I'm more than happy to spend an extra 1% of my computer's power to block far more ads than your shitty idea" by andymadigan (792996) on Sunday June 14, 2015 @12:04AM (#49907001)
You're 'happy' being illogical & stupid?
AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU use inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth...
+
ClarityRay defeats it & NOT hosts (clarityray BLOCKS addons via native browser methods).
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YOU started it -> http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... & here too http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
I finished YOU WITH IT all above!
APK
P.S.=> Howard Stark in "Capt. America" - hosts (Cap's Shield) vs. AdBlock & variants (steel):
"It's stronger than steel & 1/3rd the weight"
So
"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" & "eat your words"
... apk
"Chrome has thankfully started warning users who try to download it." - by andymadigan (792996) on Sunday June 14, 2015 @03:48PM (#49909947)
Google can try explaining it vs. proof my ware's CLEAN:
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee who also has the source & verified it safe too) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
* :)
In case you hadn't noticed it, like when you made your PUNY THREATS effetely *trying* to "blackmail me" on Hilton Hotels here http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ?
(which I could give 2 fucks about, I made the money already on a successfully done large scale project with them on contract)
I SMOKED YOU TOTALLY @ EVERY TURN, & who started it twice here http://slashdot.org/comments.p... AND HERE TOO http://apple.slashdot.org/comm... saying "I should die painfully" etc. - et al?
You failed badly on all accounts.
APK
P.S.=> Especially funny is that you seem to work for CLOUDWORDS (an advertiser affiliate of Marketo) which tips your hand & PROVED YOUR ILL MOTIVES for your stupidity, running away from this most of all -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
... apk
Adblock's in slower usermode clogging browsers w/ more messagepassing, cpu, & ram overuse. Hosts in kernelmode (which is higher cpu serviced & faster) are faster by far (like 1000x so). Adblock's rules have gotten so big it slows itself down is my suspicion.
* Heh, even posting "PURE AC" by not 'signing off' as APK here http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... AND ? The trolling off topic shills & stooges of advertisers DOWNMODDED THIS VERY POST last time I posted it... lol!
(They're afraid of me, no questions asked...)
APK
P.S.=> Fact: What's happening here evidences this for me - Advertiser's trolls & shills can't STAND the truth being read by those they deceive with 1/2 truths & PURE bullshit!
(Oh, it's advertisers & webmasters obviously, malware makers/botnet herders etc. could care less - they just create more bad sites or malware or botnets! Inferior competitors is another possible but imo @ least, they got their BRIBE money from Amazon, Google & Microsoft, Evidon, etc., so I don't *THINK* they're as interested anymore in blockingby abused unjustifiable downmods my points that nobody here OR ELSEWHERE ONLINE can prove wrong on hosts adding more speed, security, reliability & anonymity doing FAR MORE for FAR LESS resources consumed too + far less complexity, using what you already natively have vs. STUPIDLY & ILLOGICALLY "bolting on 'MoAr'" that operates in slower usermode consuming more RAM/CPU & other forms of I/O in browser addons or running a DNS server yourself)... apk
Kaminsky redirect poisoning - 99.999% of ISP DNS aren't patched vs. it.
Open DNS resolvers (not OpenDNS) get exploited by malware A LOT!
Rogue DNS servers are DNS exploit (even in routers not just system IP stack settings).
* Using hosts w/ fav sites you hardcode in 'em YOU AVOID ALL THOSE DNS SECURITY ISSUES ABOVE easily & IT RESOLVES FAR FASTER THAN CALLING TO REMOTE DNS SERVERS (especially exploited or downed ones noted (dns goes down a LOT)).
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Hosts combined w/ OpenDNS compliment one other.
I don't resolve 'every host-domain there is' via hosts, only my favs @ top of hosts (20 of 'em beating indexing past 2++ million records).
It's where ANYONE spends MOST OF THEIR TIME online - & it's faster + more efficient vs. calling to remote DNS servers.
Placement of favs thus, for FAST RESOLUTION from memory locally (hosts cache like any file) additionally saves CPU cycles, RAM, + I/O turning off a slower usermode clientside DNS cache service instead opting for the kernelmode diskcache (no context switch overhead to the IP stack either this way).
The rest of my hosts files' entries are 3,782,195++ blocked entries vs. malware & ads of many kinds.
I use REMOTE FILTERING DNS SERVERS blocking out malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains via DNS blocking (not locally here as a separate redundant wasteful recursive server or a service/daemon).
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OpenDNS:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
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It LIGHTENS remote DNS loads - admins of 'em should like it! Especially since DNS goes down a LOT!
How do I make my hosts (& do reverse dns pings for FAV sites for faster, more reliable, & safer connections)?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
With much easier understood & edited data vs. DNS rules by far.
APK
P.S.=> Locally setup DNS eats more cpu, RAM, & I/O needlessly (hosts do the job w/ less complexity + room for exploit, actually COMPLIMENTING remote dns) & MORE ELECTRICAL POWER (especially if setup as a separate machine)... apk
Kaminsky redirect poisoning - 99.999% of ISP DNS aren't patched vs. it.
Open DNS resolvers (not OpenDNS) get exploited by malware A LOT!
Rogue DNS servers are DNS exploit (even in routers not just system IP stack settings).
* Using hosts w/ fav sites you hardcode in 'em YOU AVOID ALL THOSE DNS SECURITY ISSUES ABOVE easily & IT RESOLVES FAR FASTER THAN CALLING TO REMOTE DNS SERVERS (especially exploited or downed ones noted (dns goes down a LOT)).
---
Hosts combined w/ OpenDNS compliment one other.
I don't resolve 'every host-domain there is' via hosts, only my favs @ top of hosts (20 of 'em beating indexing past 2++ million records).
It's where ANYONE spends MOST OF THEIR TIME online - & it's faster + more efficient vs. calling to remote DNS servers.
Placement of favs thus, for FAST RESOLUTION from memory locally (hosts cache like any file) additionally saves CPU cycles, RAM, + I/O turning off a slower usermode clientside DNS cache service instead opting for the kernelmode diskcache (no context switch overhead to the IP stack either this way).
The rest of my hosts files' entries are 3,782,195++ blocked entries vs. malware & ads of many kinds.
I use REMOTE FILTERING DNS SERVERS blocking out malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains via DNS blocking (not locally here as a separate redundant wasteful recursive server or a service/daemon).
---
OpenDNS:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
---
It LIGHTENS remote DNS loads - admins of 'em should like it! Especially since DNS goes down a LOT!
How do I make my hosts (& do reverse dns pings for FAV sites for faster, more reliable, & safer connections)?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
With much easier understood & edited data vs. DNS rules by far.
APK
P.S.=> Locally setup DNS eats more cpu, RAM, & I/O needlessly (hosts do the job w/ less complexity + room for exploit, actually COMPLIMENTING remote dns) & MORE ELECTRICAL POWER (especially if setup as a separate machine)... apk
DNS security issues 1st hosts overcome Kaminsky redirect poisoning - 99.999% of ISP DNS aren't patched vs. it.
Open DNS resolvers (!= OpenDNS) get exploited by malware!
Rogue DNS servers are DNS exploit (even in routers not just system IP stack settings).
* Using hosts w/ fav sites you hardcode in 'em YOU AVOID ALL THOSE DNS SECURITY ISSUES ABOVE easily & IT RESOLVES FASTER THAN CALLING TO REMOTE DNS SERVERS (especially exploited or downed ones noted (dns goes down a LOT)).
---
Hosts combined w/ OpenDNS compliment one other.
I don't resolve 'every host-domain there is' via hosts, only my favs @ top of hosts (20 of 'em beating indexing past 2++ million records).
It's where ANYONE spends MOST OF THEIR TIME online - & it's faster + more efficient vs. calling to remote DNS servers.
Placement of favs thus, for FAST RESOLUTION from memory locally (hosts cache like any file) additionally saves CPU cycles, RAM, + I/O turning off a slower usermode clientside DNS cache service instead opting for the kernelmode diskcache (no context switch overhead to the IP stack either this way).
The rest of my hosts files' entries are 3,782,195++ blocked entries vs. malware & ads of many kinds.
I use REMOTE FILTERING DNS SERVERS blocking out malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains via DNS blocking (not locally here as a separate redundant wasteful recursive server or a service/daemon).
---
OpenDNS:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
---
It LIGHTENS remote DNS loads - admins of 'em should like it!
How do I make my hosts (& do reverse dns pings for FAV sites for faster, more reliable, & safer connections)?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
With much easier understood & edited data vs. DNS rules by far.
APK
P.S.=> Locally setup DNS eats more cpu, RAM, & I/O needlessly (hosts do the job w/ less complexity + room for exploit, actually COMPLIMENTING remote dns) & MORE ELECTRICAL POWER (especially if setup as a separate machine)... apk
See subject: Show me ONCE where I have, ok? Trying to put words in my mouth I never said = WEAK, troll...
HOWEVER:
I have said that hosts do MORE for LESS than ANY OTHER SINGLE other "so-called 'solution'" by far!
See link below in regards to DNS specifically as my posts vs. AlmostALLAdsBlocked, Ghostery, & UBlock already have proven that much all over this page!
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(... & all you WEAK TROLLS can do is downmod those posts trying to "hide" them, so I just repost GETTING YOU TO BLOW ALL YOUR MODPOINTS showing you're weak & unable to validly technically prove ME wrong (& I'm probably saving some poor fool from YOU WEAKLINGS doing that to them to as you do to me, but unlike others, I have no posting limits & beat YOU FOOLS @ YOUR OWN PUNY GAME easily!)).
* The fact you had to DOWNMOD "HIDE" this same post last time I posted it speaks worlds/says it all http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
APK
P.S.=> I can, however, EASILY SHOW how & where hosts overcome DNS security, reliability, speed (vs. hosts locally compared to remote DNS servers) & power consumption issues -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... WITHOUT PUTTING WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH YOU NEVER SAID as you've TRIED on me here (again, see subject)... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
---
ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
---
UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject: Editing on a proxy server's where you do it! Why illogically & stupidly "Bolt on 'MoAr'" for no good reason (since hosts do the same as proxies do for this type of protection @ least) makes no sense - you already HAVE hosts & firewalls!
APK
P.S.=> Privoxy works with hosts - apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (for reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dns blocks
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs. addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver).
---
Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
---
ClarityRay defeats it dumping addons in use in browsers via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s paid to not do its job by default http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought out adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity in a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overhead vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER vs. hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antivirus programs in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talkback
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talkback
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talkback
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (for reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past a dns blocks
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs. addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = already on every device natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver).
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Ab+'s 128mb memory inefficiency http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts consume 3-11mb using my program initially).
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ClarityRay defeats it dumping addons in use in browsers via native browser methods!
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Ab+'s paid to not do its job by default http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought out adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
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Ab+ adds complexity in a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overhead vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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AdBlock's SLOWER vs. hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
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What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antivirus programs in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject: I'm not selling anything - You /.'ers prove me wrong for once instead of downmodding my posts? I wouldn't repost - that's to SPITE the shitheads doing it showing them I can burn them outta modpoints easily & the repost, easily "nullifying" their 1 effete 'weapon' of the weasel!
(& they can't stop me there either, or validly technically prove my points on hosts giving users more speed, security, reliability & anonymity, doing FAR MORE for FAR LESS resources consumed + less complexity).
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Good Engineering is DOING MORE with LESS - & I'm using what you ALREADY NATIVELY HAVE in hosts to do so combined with firewalls for IP address served threats etc.!
(I use hosts files vs. host-domain name served ads & malware/botnets etc. which is BY FAR the most prevalent type since fastflux works for botnet herders & stopping IP address threats @ higher levels like ICANN etc. is cake for them once known)
It's smarter & BETTER ENGINEERING by far vs. STUPIDLY & ILLOGICALLY "bolting on 'MoAr'" that doesn't DO AS MUCH & yet USES MORE + operates in slower usermode vs. hosts in kernelmode which operate way, Way, WAY before browser addons ever do too - yet using less in resources AND DOING FAR MORE FOR YOU in added speed, security, reliability + anonymity...
* Using browser addons, no matter HOW you cut it, is STUPID & ILLOGICAL to do vs. using hosts...
APK
P.S.=> Anyhow, thanks for telling me I am right here:
"But APK isn't wrong" - by cfalcon (779563) on Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:11PM (#50657891)
Thanks, truth is right, & yes, I know - what evidences it for me? Well, easy:
Trolls ALWAYS "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" vs. this FAIR CHALLENGE I put to them to validly technically prove my points on hosts wrong here http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
LMAO - they NEVER do prove me wrong & downmod it to "hide" it (& most here see my posts anyways) instead, lol... I love it!
... apk
Can ublock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnets + stop C&C communique
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C communique
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you by dns blocking
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded favs
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do those & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu + memory use
* ANSWER ="NO" to each on UBlock doing it as well or @ all!
APK
P.S.=> UBlock does less than hosts & less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
Ublock's NOT as efficient:
Hosts @ 3mb-11mb w/ current data vs. threats + ads - test yourself using my program.
UBlock uses 63++ MB -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
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ClarityRay defeats it detecting it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods to do so!
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UBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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What's better?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject & GROW UP (learn a bit about what you champion in DNS' downsides before I slam you again on it)...
APK
P.S.=> YOUR stupidity's how I KNOW I am winning - thanks! apk
YOU say "hosts=bad" (but they add security, speed, & reliability) & bitch on admin privelege to UPDATE vs. threats:
"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)
Hypocrite - You admit you use admin priv
&
How else can I programmatically update hosts minus it in Windows?
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"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
You FINALLY later admit there's no other way!
FACT:
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS you use admin privelege (you saying it's "bad" too?) it can't do its job fully otherwise, like many security tools do!
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Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET says hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) does-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts hosts & recommends my APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
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* HOW MANY SECURITY PROS DO I NEED TO KNOCK THE CHOCOLATE OUTTA YOU?
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Those security pros INCLUDE me: I work w/ guys from malwarebytes' hpHosts on a regular basis!
I've professionally worked for decades as a combined domain-wide network admin & software engineer since 1994 (Even showing you HOW to migrate a hosts across an enterprise-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )
I've also been securing computers + WRITING GUIDES using CIS Tool (who took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... - bonus) http://www.bing.com/search?q=%...
You told me you learn from guides?
I write good ones that MILLIONS USE& was PAID FOR IT http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...
+ WARES TO PROTECT USERS that are endorsed & hosted by security pros -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
You did all that? No!
(& that's ONLY a SMALL part of what I could put out...)
APK
P.S.=> You're all TALK -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & a "ne'er-do-well" as far as security...apk