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Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent (arstechnica.com)
Zorro shares a report from The Mercury News: Not only did Facebook inflate ad-watching metrics by up to 900 percent (Warning: source may be paywalled, alternative source), it knew for more than a year that its average-viewership estimates were wrong and kept quiet about it, a new legal filing claims. A group of small advertisers suing the Menlo Park social media titan alleged in the filing that Facebook "induced" advertisers to buy video ads on its platform because advertisers believed Facebook users were watching video ads for longer than they actually were. That "unethical, unscrupulous" behavior by Facebook constituted fraud because it was "likely to deceive" advertisers, the filing alleged. The latest allegations arose out of a lawsuit that the advertisers filed against Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook in federal court in 2016 over alleged inflation of ad-watching metrics. "Suggestions that we in any way tried to hide this issue from our partners are false," the company told The Wall Street Journal. "We told our customers about the error when we discovered it -- and updated our help center to explain the issue."
"The plaintiffs are seeking class-action status to bring other advertisers into the legal action, plus unspecified damages," reports The Mercury News. "They also want the court to order a third-party audit of Facebook's video-ad metrics."
"The plaintiffs are seeking class-action status to bring other advertisers into the legal action, plus unspecified damages," reports The Mercury News. "They also want the court to order a third-party audit of Facebook's video-ad metrics."
Russian ads... fake news... losing customer data to hacks... caught lying to advertisers about # of views.
How much more punishment can this company take, before it goes down?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It was an honest mistake, and I'll be sure to have my team follow up with you on the details, Congressman.
Who knew!
Should be interesting to watch the heads of these companies, suckers of liberal balls all, continue aglow to them as the trial lawyers and their lawsuite start regular assaults on their money, then donate to the Democrats.
Has nothing to do with lawsuit-sympathetic laws being passed, I'm sure.
Well, fudging the numbers to some degree is necessary. The degree to which Facebook has done it here however is unprecedented when combined with how many big advertisers they've defrauded for how long and for how much.
Fuck Zuck!
I'm all for flogging a live pathogen, but why do "reporters" nowadays always have to find the number that sounds biggest?
The contrast to my subject line, which says the exact same thing, but sounds the smallest, highlights how much bullshit is in there.
Also, "up to" is its own cancer. What if we told employerd that we will work "up to 23 hours a day", and then do fuck-all, and tell them they should have found the convenient hidden interpretations in *our* contract, that the judge will have to accept!
After a corporation attains a certain size, it's all cheating, rigging, corrupting, deceiving. 'Advertising' and 'marketing'. I.e., deceit. 'Twas ever thus, and is still, and will always be. Big business is dirty. It's only a matter of what has been found out. MS, Apple, Google, all reached a certain size and became evil. Facebook is different - it was evil from day one :-)
Who is not an expert at clicking 'skip ad' at 5.00000001 seconds by this point?
What **(&^ advertiser wouldn't know that people are good at at least 5.001 second clicks? Even my grandmother could get close to 5.01 seconds after
Advertising is why Autoplay is defaulted to on, to defraud the advertisers stats, yes your video was served to [everyuser] in your demographic, wether a human actually requested it is something we measure but are not telling you, we served your advert to a device, job done, fuck you, pay us.
"classic Windows hosts trick to block the Coinhive or Crypto-Loot domains" - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-new-player-joins-coinhive-on-the-browser-cryptojacking-scene/ - BLEEPING COMPUTER
ZD NET http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-a-hosts-file-to-improve-your-internet-experience/ "Hosts files really shine by letting you block ads, spyware sites, malware sites, & tracking sites"
SANS ("A related approach to the DNS issue is to create a hosts file on each system that sends requests for spyware to some place else" hosts by myself & RAMU right @ START of "malware explosion" mid 2005 on) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di...
Aryeh Goretsky/ESET/NOD32: hosts = good security https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7442373&cid=49747129/
Oliver Day (SYMANTEC/SECURITYFOCUS) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491/
Spybot S&D uses hosts.
APK
P.S.=> Malwarebytes' hpHosts hosts & RECOMMENDS my program forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4290
"It's working: Neville... it's working!" See subject & results from the past month https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... & https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... that's only recently while I've been on Linux (few months now only) & 100's of times vs. MANY other botnets/malwares etc. in the past circa 2006-early 2018 while I was on Windows: CONCRETE VISIBLE UNDENIABLE REALITY (see those links as proof).
P.S.=> ... & that's ONLY what /. reported on (there are FAR more)... apk
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* For the Win32/64 model...
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient/better MERGE feature too - More coming... apk
Apk has the answer for that - really... kill automatic updates by adding a hosts file entry setting updates.steam.com or whatever to 127.0.0.1. You have to find the right hostname for each software you want to block updates on by raymorris (2726007) on Friday July 06, 2018
APK your posts on this and the hosts file posts, and more, have never been in error and/or bad advice by BlueStrat (756137) on Wednesday June 21, 2017
I support APK's stand on the hosts file and can't see why it's not used more than it is. My hosts file is 144247 lines long (4,332 Kb) it & a firewall serves me very well - by Trax3001BBS (2368736)
ABP is insufficient as a solid hosts file does everything APK reminds us about fast turtle September 17 2013
You need APK's hosts file - by Teun (17872) on Wednesday August 06, 2014
* For the Win32/64 model...
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature - More coming... apk
Actually, APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock." - by chihowa on Saturday May 16, 2015
APK solution STILL relevant Thud457 June 11 2015
In a footnote, I would like to note that I find your hosts file admirable - by vel-ex-tech (4337079) on Tuesday November 24, 2015
APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good at the moment - by Culture20 on Thursday November 17
you're right about hosts files - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26
APK, I know people give you a lot of shit regarding hosts, but please don't ever stop - by nasredin (958927) on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:34PM
* For the Win32/64 model...
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature - More coming... apk
APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works. - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015
get around to 'installing' a hosts file list, not sure which one, likely the one from someonewhocares.org. If it works as well as what I used for a while about ten years ago, I'll be happy. And grateful to APK for the lesson and the reminder. - by kermidge (2221646) on Wednesday March 27
I actually went and downloaded a 16k line hosts file and started using that after seeing that post, you know just for trying it out. some sites load up faster. - by gl4ss (559668) on Thursday November 17
dammit MS, you proved APK right about something by lgw
* For the Win32/64 model...
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature - More coming... apk
(APK) is still right a hosts file really does work. It even blocked a some of the video ads that were inserted into a stream OrangeTide February 10 2016
the Host File Engine performs exactly as promised - by mmell (832646) on Thursday February 16, 2017
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I've never tried to belittle (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good - by BronsCon (927697) on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:48PM (#51491263)
(Toss on 100,000++ users worldwide too!)
* For the Win32/64 model...
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature... apk
Unethical, unscrupulous behaviour from an unethical, unscrupulous company!
Who would have thought...
APK hosts file is completely bypassed by DNS over HTTPS, being implemented by both Firefox and Chrome.
APK host files use zero extra resources from your computer, as it does absolutely nothing!
You're just jealous you didn't scam the advertisers first.
FIREFOX about:config to STOP that bs (wtf is a browser overriding the IP stack for?): network.dnsCacheEntries 0 & network.trr.mode to 5 (SHUTS IT OFF) & network.trr.uri (set to 208.67.222.222) & extensions.pocket.enabled = FALSE
* DONE!
APK
P.S.=> I don't use GOOGLE's browsers (Chome etc.) - that one's on you, or anyone else, replying... apk
ads_watched = ads_watched * 9;
The DNS resolver is NOT part of the IP stack. It's an application level protocol that is usually done over UDP(sometimes TCP as well). The IP stack itself doesn't care about a DNS name, all it wants to get is an IP address provided from userspace.
Mind you most operating systems do come with a built in resolver of some sort, but often these have serious limitations.
For example, on most Unix type systems, the gethostbyname interface does not lend itself well to event loop style programming because it blocks. The typical solution has been to use an alternate DNS library like c-ares or adns. You can even use those libraries on Windows if you like and bypass it's DNS resolver as well.
There are many pieces of software out there that explicitly ignore anything to do with /etc/hosts and only fetch the nameservers from resolv.conf or similar. That's the problem with hosts files any piece of software is perfectly free to ignore it entirely!
I figured you of all people would know this.
Hosts IS a built-in native resolver (filter for IP stack itself, no layered slowing overhead driver either). The most efficient (once cached by a kernelmode diskcaching subsystem) & fastest BUILT-IN RESOLVER is hosts FILES + core of the IP stack itself using it.
DNS = slower & loaded w/ security issues that I avoid using hosts resolving faster from local system RAM (pure kernelmode) w/ hosts. It's one of those BUILT-IN RESOLVERS (doesn't need FILTERING LAYERED DRIVERS either - TCPip.sys uses it directly, no overheads as noted above (faster/less complexity risk in security) & MORE EFFICIENT less moving parts (faster than REMOTE possibly down OR poisoned DNS).
APK
P.S.=> I know more about it than you do & HOW to make it perform not only FASTER but SAFER & more RELIABLY (than a kaminsky flaw poisoned DNS server redirected to malicious things OR a DNS being down)... apk
Why don't you go fist your own asshole instead of posting this useless garbage. It would be much more productive.
See subject: Yea - you are *chortle/snicker* after https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
* RoTfLmAo...
APK
P.S.=> YOU did THAT, to yourself... apk
Because when you buy ads from a company whose business model is ads, you can absolutely certainly trust the measurements and statistics that they are making themselves about the effectiveness of theirs ads delivered through their platform to their users.
That requires an extraordinary level of stupid.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
If you spent 5$ on advertising, anyone with half a brain focused on results would have noticed that the advertised results and what you get are completely off and that the overall advertisement functionality is a sham. Spending 5 or 6 digit values on the same bloody thing without any sort of proof of concept is pretty much your own failure, blindly giving your money away. Now people are upset and are looking for the scapegoat - pointing fingers at everyone but themselves...
Facebook first wave of,,, ahem, retired employees danced into mainstream society with an unimaginable wealth, impossible probabilities of replicating their life success ever again and the certain distraught from ' click fraud' that they had encountered.
I'm not surprised but amazed Facebook, the company, integrated that into their business model without coming under suspicion over a decade later
advertisers spend all their time lying to people and then act all shocked that people would lie to them.
More than 50% of the young people don't have a Facebook account anymore.
The rest is merely inertia.
Ya know?
See subject: Where'd I say that? Show us a quote of me saying that. You can't. You did not I. What you state doesn't matter here either.
Hosts IS a native resolver FILTER for the IP stack itself & you can change resolver order easily too e.g. in Windows thus:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]
"DnsPriority"=dword:00000006
"HostsPriority"=dword:00000005
"LocalPriority"=dword:00000007
"NetbtPriority"=dword:00000008
(LOWEST IS HIGHEST PRIORITY (& by default iirc, in Windows 7, hosts IS the 1st resolver).
Lastly: I NEVER SAID DNS WAS IN THE KERNEL
APK
P.S.=> I used lower #'s than the std. ones to illustrate here but it is something you can see/check yourself - it's no diff. on *NIX just set up in an area that's diff. via files vs. registry (they're all derived from the base BSD stack anyhow afaik)... apk
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* SEE SUBJECT & TELL US: How does EATING YOUR WORDS taste?
APK
P.S.=> You're already VASTLY OUTNUMBERED but many more are coming
Apk has the answer for that - really... kill automatic updates by adding a hosts file entry setting updates.steam.com or whatever to 127.0.0.1. You have to find the right hostname for each software you want to block updates on by raymorris (2726007) on Friday July 06, 2018
APK your posts on this and the hosts file posts, and more, have never been in error and/or bad advice by BlueStrat (756137) on Wednesday June 21, 2017
I support APK's stand on the hosts file and can't see why it's not used more than it is. My hosts file is 144247 lines long (4,332 Kb) it & a firewall serves me very well - by Trax3001BBS (2368736)
ABP is insufficient as a solid hosts file does everything APK reminds us about fast turtle September 17 2013
You need APK's hosts file - by Teun (17872) on Wednesday August 06, 2014
APK
P.S.=> You EATING YOUR WORDS != GOOD NUTRITION... apk
Actually, APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock." - by chihowa on Saturday May 16, 2015
APK solution STILL relevant Thud457 June 11 2015
In a footnote, I would like to note that I find your hosts file admirable - by vel-ex-tech (4337079) on Tuesday November 24, 2015
APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good at the moment - by Culture20 on Thursday November 17
you're right about hosts files - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26
APK, I know people give you a lot of shit regarding hosts, but please don't ever stop - by nasredin (958927) on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:34PM
APK
P.S.=> Are you ENJOYING the taste of EATING YOUR WORDS yet?... apk
APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works. - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015
get around to 'installing' a hosts file list, not sure which one, likely the one from someonewhocares.org. If it works as well as what I used for a while about ten years ago, I'll be happy. And grateful to APK for the lesson and the reminder. - by kermidge (2221646) on Wednesday March 27
I actually went and downloaded a 16k line hosts file and started using that after seeing that post, you know just for trying it out. some sites load up faster. - by gl4ss (559668) on Thursday November 17
dammit MS, you proved APK right about something by lgw
APK
P.S.=> Your words YOU'RE EATING: You choking on them yet?... apk
(APK) is still right a hosts file really does work. It even blocked a some of the video ads that were inserted into a stream OrangeTide February 10 2016
the Host File Engine performs exactly as promised - by mmell (832646) on Thursday February 16, 2017
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I've never tried to belittle (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good - by BronsCon (927697) on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:48PM (#51491263)
APK
P.S.=> YOU'RE OUTNUMBERED DOZENS TO 1 - toss on 100,000++ users of my program worldwide too... apk
Hosts is a file & files get cached (fact): Accesses faster that way on re-access, pure kernelmode no context switch (unless hosts changes & it reloads again pure kernelmode access, NO buggy w/ large hosts files USERMODE SLOW like Windows buggy DNS cache service is https://blogs.msmvps.com/acefe... (not a kernelmode driver, dnscache usermode service)).
Doesn't run SLOW - look @ 5 sets of users I posted telling you FAR DIFFERENT... why? THEY FOLLOW DIRECTIONS my program gives them (to disable the USERMODE SLOW BUGGY dnscache service that lags on large hosts files & HAS SECURITY ISSUES too).
I keep my top 100 fav sites @ TOP of hosts & cached too LOCALLY IN RAM is the FASTEST POSSIBLE RESOLVER (& is safer than dns redirect poisoned SLOWER remote DNS).
The rest of the 5 million entries ARE BLOCKED - I could care less "how fast" those are gotten to - I NEVER INTEND TO GET TO THEM & TTL does the rest.
APK
P.S.=> YOU LOSE... apk
See subject: Via APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux/BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p
Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less.
Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing you hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition loaded w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploitation!
* ONLY 1 of its kind in GUI 4 Linux/BSD!
(Better vs. Windows model in speed/efficiency/merge)
APK
P.S.=> Protects vs. script trackers/ads/DNS request tracking + redirect poisoned or downed DNS/botnets/malware downloads/malcript/email malicious payloads... apk
"classic Windows hosts trick to block the Coinhive or Crypto-Loot domains" - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-new-player-joins-coinhive-on-the-browser-cryptojacking-scene/ - BLEEPING COMPUTER
ZD NET http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-a-hosts-file-to-improve-your-internet-experience/ "Hosts files really shine by letting you block ads, spyware sites, malware sites, & tracking sites"
SANS ("A related approach to the DNS issue is to create a hosts file on each system that sends requests for spyware to some place else" hosts by myself & RAMU right @ START of "malware explosion" mid 2005 on) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di...
Aryeh Goretsky/ESET/NOD32: hosts = good security https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7442373&cid=49747129/
Oliver Day (SYMANTEC/SECURITYFOCUS) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491/
Spybot S&D uses hosts.
APK
P.S.=> Malwarebytes' hpHosts hosts + RECOMMENDS my program forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4290
"It's working: Neville... it's working!" See subject & results from the past month https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... & https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... that's only recently while I've been on Linux (few months now only) & 100's of times vs. MANY other botnets/malwares etc. in the past circa 2006-early 2018 while I was on Windows: CONCRETE VISIBLE UNDENIABLE REALITY (see those links as proof).
P.S.=> ... & that's ONLY what /. reported on (there are FAR more)... apk
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* For the Win32/64 model.
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient/better MERGE feature too - More coming... apk
Apk has the answer for that - really... kill automatic updates by adding a hosts file entry setting updates.steam.com or whatever to 127.0.0.1. You have to find the right hostname for each software you want to block updates on by raymorris (2726007) on Friday July 06, 2018
APK your posts on this and the hosts file posts, and more, have never been in error and/or bad advice by BlueStrat (756137) on Wednesday June 21, 2017
I support APK's stand on the hosts file and can't see why it's not used more than it is. My hosts file is 144247 lines long (4,332 Kb) it & a firewall serves me very well - by Trax3001BBS (2368736)
ABP is insufficient as a solid hosts file does everything APK reminds us about fast turtle September 17 2013
You need APK's hosts file - by Teun (17872) on Wednesday August 06, 2014
* For the Win32/64 model.
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature - More coming... apk
Actually, APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock." - by chihowa on Saturday May 16, 2015
APK solution STILL relevant Thud457 June 11 2015
In a footnote, I would like to note that I find your hosts file admirable - by vel-ex-tech (4337079) on Tuesday November 24, 2015
APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good at the moment - by Culture20 on Thursday November 17
you're right about hosts files - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26
APK, I know people give you a lot of shit regarding hosts, but please don't ever stop - by nasredin (958927) on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:34PM
* For the Win32/64 model.
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature - More coming... apk
APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works. - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015
get around to 'installing' a hosts file list, not sure which one, likely the one from someonewhocares.org. If it works as well as what I used for a while about ten years ago, I'll be happy. And grateful to APK for the lesson and the reminder. - by kermidge (2221646) on Wednesday March 27
I actually went and downloaded a 16k line hosts file and started using that after seeing that post, you know just for trying it out. some sites load up faster. - by gl4ss (559668) on Thursday November 17
dammit MS, you proved APK right about something by lgw
* For the Win32/64 model.
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature - More coming... apk
(APK) is still right a hosts file really does work. It even blocked a some of the video ads that were inserted into a stream OrangeTide February 10 2016
the Host File Engine performs exactly as promised - by mmell (832646) on Thursday February 16, 2017
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I've never tried to belittle (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good - by BronsCon (927697) on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:48PM (#51491263)
(Toss on 100,000++ users worldwide too!)
* For the Win32/64 model.
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature... apk
See subject & YOU tried to "downmod hide" where I shot you to pieces https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... TRYING to put words in my mouth I never said!
DNS in kernel? I never said that https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
+
Hosts (unlike DNS) IS a NATIVE resolver (no security issue riddled SLOWER remote DNS that TRACKS YOU too) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (not "Bolt-on-'MoAr'" ILLOGIC-LOGIC in slower usermode (in Windows' cache service, Linux afaik has none)).
Faster vs. remote DNS!
ADVERTISERS + browser makers ENSLAVED by silver purse strings WANT to f up your browser ao it's an ADVERTISING MACHINE (subject to DNS down/REDIRECT POISONED THEIR stupid way that has messagepass overheads galore & more MOVING PARTS for EXPLOIT)?
FF can be altered to NORMAL https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
* I OVERRODE your PUNY effete "wannabe weapon" the ABUSED DOWNMOD & I just REPOSTED nullifying it https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... running you DRY of abused downmodpoints.
APK
P.S.=> YOU FAIL
LMAO @ trolls who TRIED to "downmodhide" where I shot 'em to pieces https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... TRYING to put words in my mouth I never say!
DNS in kernel?
I never said that https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
+
Hosts (unlike DNS) = NATIVE resolver (no security issue riddled SLOW remote DNS TRACKING U too) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (not "Bolt-on-'MoAr'" ILLOGIC-LOGIC in slower usermode (Windows' cache service, Linux afaik has none)).
Faster vs. remote DNS!
ADVERTISERS + browser makers ENSLAVED by silver purse strings WANT to f up your browser so it's an ADVERTISING MACHINE (subject to DNS down/REDIRECT POISONED THEIR stupid way that has messagepass overheads galore & more MOVING PARTS for EXPLOIT)?
FF can be altered to NORMAL https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
* I OVERRODE weezils' PUNY effete "wannabe weapon" ABUSED DOWNMODS & I just REPOSTED nullifying it https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... running you DRY of downmodpoints.
APK
P.S.=> YOU FAIL SIMON WEEZILthal, lol... apk