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Chrome, Safari and Opera Criticised For Removing Privacy Setting (sophos.com)

Posted by msmash on from the closer-look dept.

It's a browser feature few users will have heard of, but forthcoming versions of Chrome, Safari and Opera are in the process of removing the ability to disable a long-ignored tracking feature called hyperlink auditing pings. From a report: This is a long-established HTML feature that's set as an attribute -- the ping variable -- which turns a link into a URL that can be tracked by website owners or advertisers to monitor what users are clicking on. When a user follows a link set up to work like this, an HTTP POST ping is sent to a second URL which records this interaction without revealing to the user that this has happened. It's only one of several ways users can be tracked, of course, but it's long bothered privacy experts, which is why third-party adblockers often include it on their block list by default.

Until now, an even simpler way to block these pings has been through the browser itself, which in the case of Chrome, Safari and Opera is done by setting a flag (in Chrome you type chrome://flags and set hyperlink auditing to 'disabled'). Notice, however, that these browsers still allow hyperlink auditing by default, which means users would need to know about this setting to change that. It seems that very few do.

130 comments

  1. Guess what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Quit pretending these are different browsers. It's the same thing repackaged.

    Web kit is web shit.

    1. Re:Guess what by bhcompy · · Score: 1

      Brave is Chromium based, but is called out in article as not changing its behavior.

    2. Re:Guess what by Anubis+IV · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I'm not sure why you think those three browsers are repackaged versions of each other. Apple forked WebKit in 2010 as WebKit2 for use in Safari, and hasn't used WebKit proper since it made the switch. Google forked WebKit in 2013 as Blink for use in Chromium/Chrome, and hasn't used WebKit proper since it made the switch. In the last few years, Chromium has been adopted by Opera and Microsoft, but Safari—despite having started at the same place that Chrome started—today remains on a different foundation. That Safari is making this change at the same time as the others is due to political/corporate maneuvering, not technical changes.

      Also, while there are valid arguments to be made against a browser monoculture—a problem that WebKit-based browsers are contributing to—that doesn't mean that the rendering engines themselves are bad. Far from it, I think most people would agree that on their technical merits, WebKit-based engines are among the best we have, and certainly aren't bad enough to justify your vitriolic frothing against them.

    3. Re:Guess what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I feel the same way about IE6! ActiveX JUST WORKS!

    4. Re:Guess what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apple forked KHTML from KDE project to create WebKit to use in Safari. Please do some background check prior posting it.

    5. Re:Guess what by Anubis+IV · · Score: 1

      Apple forked KHTML from KDE project to create WebKit to use in Safari. Please do some background check prior posting it.

      Sure, but KHTML originally operated on Linux, for which we can thank Linus Torvalds. Or didn’t you know that?

      Which is to say, I’m well aware of the information you just shared, but it has no relevance to the point at hand. I intentionally constrained my comment to recent history, from the forks onward, because that’s the only part of their history that was relevant. Why talk about Julius Caesar when you’re correcting someone’s understanding of the French Revolution?

  2. Chrome was good for a while ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... and made Firefox lift its game out of complacency, but it is long past the time to return to FF.

    1. Re:Chrome was good for a while ... by flippy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I've LONG since returned to FF. The best out there, IMO.

    2. Re:Chrome was good for a while ... by flippy · · Score: 1

      Interesting. Not a whole lot of info about it on its site, though.

    3. Re:Chrome was good for a while ... by bhcompy · · Score: 1

      Never left.

    4. Re:Chrome was good for a while ... by houghi · · Score: 1

      The webspage is https://www.waterfoxproject.or... and the link to the Android one does not work and nothing on the Google store. :-/

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    5. Re: Chrome was good for a while ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ungoogled chromium

    6. Re:Chrome was good for a while ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The industry hates privacy. So does the government, for that matter.

      They stand to gain from spying on you, so they naturally expect that they have a moral right to do so, and your efforts at hiding from them are evil to the point of being society-breaking.

      If you don't regularly and consistently go out of your way to protect your privacy, you will absolutely lose it.

    7. Re:Chrome was good for a while ... by Darinbob · · Score: 1

      These browsers all work for the ad industry, directly or indirectly. They want the business from web sites that make their money from ads. They won't do anything to hurt that golden goose.

      We don't use adblock and noscript and turn on privacy settings because we want all those web site developers to lose money or their jobs. We use these tools in self defense! To reduce that wasted bandwidth that ads take up, to block against the primary vector of malware, and to stop tracking and other privacy intrusions.

    8. Re:Chrome was good for a while ... by Rockoon · · Score: 1

      and made Firefox lift its game out of complacency

      Firefox went far more complacent once the Google money started rolling in.

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  3. Can't this be fixed with extensions? by SurenEnfiajyan · · Score: 1

    Can't this be fixed with extensions? Currently Ublock doesn't let the browser to ping even though the feature is enabled. Also ping attribute is trivial to detect and remove compared to obfuscated JS code.

    1. Re:Can't this be fixed with extensions? by xack · · Score: 2

      Modern webExtentions are neutered by design by the advertising industry funding Chrome and its puppet Mozilla. Even Pale Moon is neutered by blacklisting of extensions.

    2. Re:Can't this be fixed with extensions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Why is there not false feedback options. If advertisers discover 5-80% of their leads are worthless, they will be mad. So rather than block, how about sending the IP address of a spammer/bulk emailer etc. Mash these uniqueish fingerfrints - mac address, battery hardware id etc. Make them pay for all those unique leads. Misdirection and disinformation is YOUR right.

    3. Re:Can't this be fixed with extensions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It can be fixed with Firefox.

    4. Re:Can't this be fixed with extensions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Modern webExtentions are neutered by design by the advertising industry funding Chrome and its puppet Mozilla. Even Pale Moon is neutered by blacklisting of extensions.

      And they slow the browser down.

    5. Re:Can't this be fixed with extensions? by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 2

      Yes, it is trivial to fix, though you have to write an extension with the scary "can look at all web pages you visit" permission since it has to muck with all pages.

      There's a standard mechanism to inject a script into every page that loads. You would set it to inject on every page and frame. The script should look for any a tags with the ping attribute, and remove the attribute. Then you want to set up a MutationObserver (or whatever the newer API is now?) to detect any changes to the page which could add in ping attributes to a tags or new a tags. When the event fires, you run your code again to scan for a tags with ping attributes and remove the attributes.

      That's the basic functionality and it would not take long to make. You'd probably want to make it fancy by adding things like a pings blocked counter or whatever which would take longer. Such extensions probably already exist.

    6. Re:Can't this be fixed with extensions? by hairyfeet · · Score: 2

      The one Pale Moon "blacklisted" refused to fix serious issues with getting it running on PM so the PM team simply replaced it with uBlock Origin, they even have a handy updater that contacts Github and grabs the latest uBlock version compatible with PM so you don't need to deal with keeping up with versions.

      Considering uBlock actually works with PM and does the same job while the later versions of NS was crashy AF on PM? I really see blacklisting an extension that wouldn't work properly as a non issue as uBlock does the same job and is compatible. BTW feel free to contact the NoScript dev and ask him to support the latest version of PM but don't be surprised if he tells you which bridge to jump off of as I've heard the dev is rather..."surly" and doesn't take criticisms or suggestions very well. A shame really but...well "not very sociable" developers aren't exactly a new thing are they?

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    7. Re:Can't this be fixed with extensions? by mrbester · · Score: 1

      Don't forget to send such data as pings blocked back to the mother ship with navigator.sendBeacon so you can aggregate the block count and show it on your site in a flashy box: "this really works! 2,046,732,755 pings blocked and counting!"

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    8. Re:Can't this be fixed with extensions? by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      An extension might block approved ads. The approved ads always have to get deep into the browser.

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    9. Re:Can't this be fixed with extensions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I know nothing about the NS guy, but the PM guys fit your description of the NS guy. They would either get along famously, or kill each other. There is no in between. They must be made for each other.

  4. Chromification of the web by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    This is a natural result of the Chromification of the web (where standards based browsers are increasingly being replaced with a single, monopoly-owned browser, Chrome). Who would have thought that giving google more power over the web would result in this!?

  5. Help me understand this hyperlink auditing feature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can someone explain to me if this feature being removed from Safari, Chrome and Opera is the same as the "send referral information" ?

  6. fortunately there are alternatives by Virtucon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just seek out one of the alternatives, it's sad that these mainstream browsers are ok with the privacy issues that tracking incurs but hey, we are the product right? I'd gladly pay for software, browsers included that doesn't track and pay a premium for actually defending my privacy without ambiguous TOS that changes every time the wind shifts.

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    1. Re:fortunately there are alternatives by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 2

      I'd gladly pay for software, browsers included that doesn't track and pay a premium for actually defending my privacy without ambiguous TOS that changes every time the wind shifts.

      Unfortunately, you are in the minority. Whenever someone tries to figure out how to make a living catering to people like you, they fail.

      I’m sure someone’s going to trot Apple out as a counter-example, but 1) in this case Safari is one of the offenders; and 2) there’s a huge price premium on the brand, very little of which is actually related to giving up the revenue from tracking you.

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    2. Re:fortunately there are alternatives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anyone know about those "ping" requests? Are they distinctive enough that they could be blocked by a HTTP proxy?

    3. Re:fortunately there are alternatives by Immerman · · Score: 1

      Sad, but utterly predictable when the mainstream browsers are are built atop an HTML engine made by an advertising company.

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  7. Didn't know this existed by Sebby · · Score: 1

    I wasn't even remotely aware of this 'ping' attribute.

    Now that I do, I think I'll have some fun having it modified by an extension to 'ping' back a URL with a nasty message in it!

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    1. Re:Didn't know this existed by gtall · · Score: 1

      You do realize that there's no one there to read the nasty message, yes? Welcome to bot-world, you only exist to provide service to the bots.

    2. Re:Didn't know this existed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah I'll just flood them with pings

    3. Re:Didn't know this existed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Obviously, you have to write the message in a language the recipient understands.
      https://www.xkcd.com/327/

    4. Re:Didn't know this existed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I didn't know this existed either until I read about on Sunday on, um, Slashdot. Odd to see a dupe take this long to show up. Clearly, we need a browser that can edit Slashdot because humans aren't up to the task.

  8. thanks for the info by FudRucker · · Score: 1

    i never knew it was there, but i do now, and i just disabled that spying feature (bug) and it looks like chromium-73.x.xxxx is the last version of chromium i will use, when the next version is released with that feature forced on users i will switch to firefox full time

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  9. Safari tracking prevention feature is a joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nothing is really blocked here and if you visit google and a site that drops a google cookie, that cookie wont be periodically deleted. There are no checks and balances on this feature either.

    Now lets talk about iphone apps. They all report to their mothership and analytics sites masquerading as crash and debug tools.

    Nothing is private in apples world

  10. Eventually TLS 1.3 0-RTT will be mandatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    with the flimsy excuse of "performance", and then you will know for sure that the war on privacy is real, and that with the 0-RTT enforcement, will be lost.

  11. Why would a regular citizen need privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Are you doing something you should not?

    1. Re:Why would a regular citizen need privacy? by dark.nebulae · · Score: 1

      I don't care that anyone would see, via a warrant, the fact that I shop at amazon, read slashdot, write code and sometimes even surf porn.

      I'll give you my browser history if you really want to see it. Doesn't mean jack to me.

      What I hate though is the creepy advertising. If I go to amazon to look for a blanket, every non-amazon site I visit is going to show me blankets. This creepy feeling that folks are following me around trying to tempt me with something I looked at because I had a need at the time, that's the stuff that I don't want.

  12. Chromium? by sconeu · · Score: 1

    What about the actual Chromium browser itself (rather than Chrome). Does anyone know if Chromium went evil?

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    1. Re:Chromium? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Went evil? At what point was Chromium not evil? You are the product.

    2. Re:Chromium? by SurenEnfiajyan · · Score: 1

      Chromium is "evil" by default. There is no reason for Google to maintain code that they don't need. Edge will be based on Chromium and won't have the flag for that reason. But I wonder if extensions, such as Ublock, will be still able to block pings even with the removed flag since Ublock blocks the pings even when the flag is enabled. Also ping attributes in DOM are trivial to detect and remove, unlike obfuscated JS codes.

  13. Most sites who would do this redirect anyway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thanks to affiliate marketing, many sites nowadays link to the target web site normally, but the moment you click on the link, its target is replaced with a link to a redirect through the source site. The linked URL then instantly redirects to the actual target, often with an added referral code. The site also makes sure that Javascript is enabled by making the layout depend on Javascript.

    1. Re:Most sites who would do this redirect anyway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Only you can enable JavaScript. The remote web site cannot.

    2. Re:Most sites who would do this redirect anyway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, but they make sure that, by the time I see the site, I must have enabled Javascript. It's simple: <body style="visibility:hidden"><script>document.body.style.visibility="visible"</script>

  14. Isn't this just a redirect? by jbmartin6 · · Score: 2

    I couldn't find any response from Google, though there could very well be. But this just seems like a shortcut for something Google and others have done for a long time, which is just use an intermediate link as the tracker, which just does a redirect to the ultimate destination. A site admin could just replace any links on the site with intermediate links to the tracker/redirector.

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    1. Re:Isn't this just a redirect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But that is visible to the user, even if only briefly (notice how right-clicking on many sponsor links causes them to change from something reasonable to some outbrain or taboola URL). This ping mechanism is completely invisible. You, the user, never know it's happening unless you look at the page source.

      The way to work around it is to right-click the link, copy the URL, paste it into a new browser tab, and examine/edit it before pressing return to visit the page. That's what I do with all suspect links, anyway.

  15. Hosts do (Ublock = dead due to JEWgle) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & https://www.bleepingcomputer.c... - As is, addons = easily detected & blocked by webmasters + they aren't ANYWHERE NEAR as efficient OR FAST as hosts in kernelmode as part of the IP stack itself (filter) since they're in usermode slowing up already SLOWER browsers (increasing resource use, complexity & messagepass overhead - stack a few & see for yourself & there is NOTHING anyone can do about that - it's programmatic physics).

    * BEST POSSIBLE ANSWER = hosts via https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    APK

    P.S.=> UBlock's been burnt alive & you can "thank" JEWgle for that bs... apk

    1. Re: Hosts do (Ublock = dead due to JEWgle) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oooh apk your host file is soooooooo gooooood

      -banana

  16. Re: No big deal: Hosts put it right... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If only hosts blocked your spam...

  17. Bah! I overpower CHUMPS @ JEWgle... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bah! I overpower CHUMPS @ JEWgle https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    * FACT!

    APK

    P.S.=> They're TRYING to subvert hosts, the IP stack itself (w/ INEFFICIENT stupid complexity too no less - ah, the "ILLOGIC-LOGIC" of JEWgle, lol) https://idle.slashdot.org/comm... + https://idle.slashdot.org/comm... as MORE "evidences thereof" as to MY statements now of FACT... apk

  18. Re: No big deal: Hosts put it right... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK stops the biggest spammer of all time in JEWgle https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... plus threats of most all kinds too.

  19. Actually, it's YOU that does &? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Actually, it's YOU that does & so do the sources of what to blockout - I merely provide an easy to use GUI facility multiplatform to consolidate blocking data vs. threats etc.!

    So, want to do a job right? DO IT YOURSELF (since via hosts you have the MOST efficient level of control YOU CONTROL YOURSELF!)

    * Enjoy & thanks!

    APK

    P.S.=> "Onwards & UPWARDS"... apk

    1. Re: Actually, it's YOU that does &? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you want a job done right, do it yourself... rather than using APK's bloated and extremely inefficient closed source software.

    2. Re: Actually, it's YOU that does &? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Apk's the only one around here that seems to know how to code things himself in a nice GUI not tty term primitive crap nobody normal uses for decades and not by stealing others code passing it off as your own openSORES.

    3. Re: Actually, it's YOU that does &? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APK has only coded two things:
      1) A horribly inefficient string sorting program
      2) A useless spambot (CryberianTiger, lol!)

  20. Re: No big deal: Hosts put it right... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I just knew you'd post your stupid little hosts file app for this article. Because it can do anything

    -subie

  21. Don't use APK's software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Can you trust that someone who openly has antisemitic views (see his "Jewgle" nonsense) to secure your computer?

    Can you really trust a prolific spammer like APK to secure your computer?

    Can you trust that a hateful person like APK doesn't include malicious functionality within his closed source software?

    The answer to each of these questions should be no. APK is not to be trusted. There are superior open source alternatives to his software, such as Steven Black's software. It's written in Python, so it works on far more systems (like MacOS) than APK's inefficient closed source program. It also doesn't require a GUI, so it can be run automatically as a cron job to keep your hosts file updated.

    1. Re:Don't use APK's software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You can trust him to be honest about Jews.

      So probably this is a well-curated host file.

  22. Don't use APK's closed source software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can you trust that someone who openly has antisemitic views (see his "Jewgle" nonsense) to secure your computer?

    Can you really trust a prolific spammer like APK to secure your computer?

    Can you trust that a hateful person like APK doesn't include malicious functionality within his closed source software? Can you really be confident that it's not malware?

    The answer to each of these questions should be no. APK is not to be trusted. There are superior open source alternatives to his software, such as Steven Black's software. It's written in Python, so it works on far more systems (like MacOS) than APK's inefficient closed source program. It also doesn't require a GUI, so it can be run automatically as a cron job to keep your hosts file updated.

    1. Re:Don't use APK's closed source software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We should never insult our masters, eh? I got nothing good to say about some self-important group that considers me to be less than cattle (goyim).

    2. Re: Don't use APK's closed source software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anyone who can say âoeantisemeticâ with a straight face is a mouth breathing slave. Youâ(TM)re a retard, and a Jew slave to boot. Ask yourself: why, if you live in the greatest country on earth, did you have a large chunk of your cock cut off, like some preteen bride in Africa? Because youâ(TM)re a slave. A slave to the Jews obviously. And you do love your master like a good little partially-castrated slave.

    3. Re:Don't use APK's closed source software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Python tty term interpreted slow primitive commandline crap? NO thank you. Your suggestions blow just like you do you stalker of APK. Biggest racists and haters are jews. Just like you jew.

  23. Re: No big deal: Hosts put it right... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK's software is complete shit. He could improve it and release it as open source, but that would take too much time away from threatening violence toward users like Cederic.

  24. Braindamaged fatboy "Sensitive Cederic" lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Braindamaged fatboy "Sensitive Cederic" lol PLAYS "victim"? LMAO - No violence to fatboy https://slashdot.org/comments.... defective retard https://slashdot.org/comments.... Cederic.

    FACT: EVERYONE KNOWS "your kind" (defective deranged retards) CAN'T INTERPRET THINGS CORRECTLY!

    * I merely asked him to meet me IN PERSON so we can discuss it...

    SEE SUBJECT & LEARN TO READ retard ASSBURGER, lol! I will NEVER "apologize" to a DISGUSTING fatbody "ne'er-do-well" RETARDED mentally DEFECTIVE deficient WHIMP like "Cederic" (he is his OWN demise, after all, lol).

    APK

    P.S.=> Sensitive little FATBOY RETARD, lol (truth/fact from his own fakename mouth)... apk

    1. Re: Braindamaged fatboy "Sensitive Cederic" lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your projecting that you're morbidly obese. Perhaps you should spend more time exercising and less time spamming Slashdot.

  25. APK is complete garbage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's right, you're complete garbage. You live in a $1 house in the slums of Syracuse and have no job. You lived in your daddy's basement for years before he gave you the house. Obviously he knew you'd end up on the street if he didn't intervene. You spend your whole life on Slashdot, spamming about a worthless and horribly inefficient string sorting program. You seriously need 14,000+ lines to sort strings? You are obsessed with Slashdot, so much that you wrote a spambot (the worthless CyberianTiger program), then spend hours reposting every one of your spam comments that gets modded down. You have no family of your own, nor will you ever have one. You're a middle aged loser who wasted his life on internet vendettas.

    I'm on a business trip in Singapore and had a few minutes to amuse myself on Slashdot when I saw you still shitposting. My net worth is over $55 million as of January 2019 and I am the majority owner of a very successful business, while you're living in a $1 house and can't even give your string sorting program away for free. No one wants it, because everyone knows it's complete shit, just like you. I would never hire someone as toxic and useless as you to work at my company. You're a shit programmer and a shit human being. You can rot away in your $1 house while I enjoy my time in Singapore.

    You seem to think everyone needs to prove themselves to you but they really don't. I don't care what you think of me any more than I care what some drug addict on the street thinks about how I should run my company. You have nothing useful to contribute. I neither need nor want the validation of a loser on the internet, like you.

    Perhaps I should persuade the city of Syracuse to let me build an office building or a store where your $1 house currently is. I could acquire the property through eminent domain for pennies on the dollar, and yes, that's just one dollar. You'd wander the streets until you found a bridge to live under, which is exactly where you belong.

    Oh, you'll probably want me to post my name and address, because you're an internet tough guy. I'm traveling for business, then I'll be in Shanghai this weekend for the Formula One race. You can drag your sorry ass to Shanghai if you want to carry out your threats, except that you couldn't afford the trip.

    You are complete garbage.

    1. Re: APK is complete garbage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      APK will eventually write you an angry reply once he gets over the butthurt from realizing how much he wasted his life.

  26. Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #4/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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

  27. Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #5/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (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 200,000++ users worldwide too!

    (WANT MORE? Ask & "ye shall receive" to your public dismay!)

    APK

    P.S.=> You still haven't said how EATING YOUR WORDS tastes? apk

    1. Re: Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #5/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You should include the part where BronsCon said your program is toxic.

    2. Re: Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #5/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Learn to read. Toxic to malware, botnets, trackers and ads. BronsCon felt APK's toxic but did say his work's excellent and could be the best program ever written.

    3. Re: Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #5/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      BronsCon said APK is toxic and, by extension, so is his software. BronsCon never said APK's software could be the best program ever written. That's bullshit and you know it.

      We both know you're APK. You're so much of a narcissist that you have to praise yourself when nobody else will.

      You wasted your life and you know it. That's why you're so bitter, because you're jealous of everyone who has done better than you (which is almost everyone).

    4. Re: Registered /.ers disagree w/ you #5/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Look up the quote APK used. Give us the URL and let us decide for ourselves. You are going to eat your words and that is why you hide behind anonymous.

  28. Security pros etc. QUOTED on hosts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "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&amp.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

  29. Hosts efficacy recently vs. threats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See my subject line & results in https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://linux.slashdot.org/com... https://news.slashdot.org/comm... https://apple.slashdot.org/com... 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... https://search.slashdot.org/co... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://apple.slashdot.org/com... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://science.slashdot.org/c... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://hardware.slashdot.org/... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    * That

  30. Re: Even CHINA copied me (vs. DNS down/redirected) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    China didn't copy your shit program. You're a dumbass.

  31. "i returned to blue haired firefox, i'm so smart" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do you even know why chrome was made?

    because firefox social justice team paused on implementing http pings

    because people that understood it, that is, people not like you, campaigned against http pings. The whole thing started before the 2012 launch of chrome

    then chrome had an INTENTIONALLY WRONGLY WRITTEN FLAG negatively worded to disable http ping

    THEN they broke it AGAIN, now fixing the wording, but not the flag name, making it IMPOSSIBLE to know what the setting was set to

    Just fuck EVERYONE on slashdot for ignoring this issue for SEVEN FUCKING YEARS

    fuck every single one of you, every single one of you would 100% give the exact same response when I posted about chrome's intentionally negatively-worded http ping flag

    > "WELL IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT STOP USING IT"

    ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF YOU FUCKING RETARDS

    ignorant shits.

    Now having broken this twice, they are removing it, and everyone that tried to bring it up was shouted down - not by google people, not by racist people, not by evil people, but by anal retentive twats like slashdot users

    grow the fuck up you assholes, and start thinking critically about this shit

    I sent details of these problems to EVERY SINGLE SECURITY BLOGGER: you name them, i've emailed them a comprehensive overview of the issue

    100% of them ignored the issue

    NOW YOU FUCKERS ARE GOING TO BITCH AND WHINE FOR FIVE MINUTES AND THEN FORGET ABOUT IT?

    fucking pathetic.

    I also called it when google started restricting the APIs for extensions recently - it was for a reason, to cut off avenues to counteract their upcoming measures

    the chinafication of america

    you despicable, arrogant, neck-bearded virtue signaling weak twats.

    you're like reddit but even more embarrassing.

  32. Ask JEWgle about EFast Chrome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ask JEWgle about EFast Chrome (so much for being STUPID ENOUGH to "OpenSORES" your code) https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=... FOOL!

    (THAT will NEVER HAPPEN to me off MY code - I don't give it away to MORONS is why)

    * Plus, I don't give away MY work to morons that can't REALLY code for themselves (only way to REALLY learn is to go thru the work of doing it YOURSELF, not PLAGIARISM) - it only weakens you ALREADY weak morons!

    I mean, seriously: WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO SAY WHAT GOOD CODE IS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A DAMN THING TO SHOW FOR YOURSELF THAT ANYONE SAYS IS GOOD?

    DOZENS on /. ALONE say my work = good.

    Imbecile BLOWHARD you are!

    APK

    P.S.=> Lastly, as far as "sensitive Cederic" fatboy lardass RETARD assburger GOOF playing "victim"? LOL, please https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... ... apk

  33. Other browsers by BlackOverflow · · Score: 1

    I was sad to see that Vivaldi browser has this enabled by default.

  34. Re: Even CHINA copied me (vs. DNS down/redirected) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dear clickclack ding dong slanteye dildo: You thieving chinks did copy part of what apk's program does to protect vs. DNS down or poisoned.

  35. Re:"i returned to blue haired firefox, i'm so smar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    you're like reddit but even more embarrassing.

    I certainly agree with that. Mostly because of posts like yours.

  36. Uninstalled by cmaurand · · Score: 1

    I uninstalled opera last night and switched back to Firefox. I don't like forced updates, but I value my privacy more than I object to forced updates.

    1. Re:Uninstalled by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's possible to disable Firefox automatic updates.

  37. @ 6' 2" 210 lbs. here currently? LOL, not... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I projected zero (but "sensitive cederic" FATBOY assburger retard ASBSOLUTELY did, lol) - @ 6' 2" 210 lbs. here currently? LOL, not & I'm also a former 1st string/starter as a FRESHMAN no less for a national champ in the sport of Lacrosse - & you? Not.

    * CREAMPUFF, I almost GUARANTEE this much too - Even @ almost 55 yrs. of age, I'd probably bust you in 1/2 were we to "duke it out" man-to-man!

    HOWEVER:

    Seeing how you 'courageously' STAND BEHIND YOUR WORDS (lol, not) as UNIDENTIFIABLE anonyous PUSSCAKE you are?

    You'd run before I could (& I'd catch you, even now - heck, barely any BLACKS could outrun me in my heyday - however: Scott Schwedes (former AA in football highschool & NCAA in Miami Dolphin) could - rarity).

    APK

    P.S.=> Perhaps a LOSER like YOU should try doing right by others as I do https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... instead of SPEWING your shit all over /. STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous JEALOUS "Lil' Jowie" trollings of me (jealous boy, lol) - it's YOUR FAULT you're a NO SKILLS do-NOTHING "ne'er-do-well", not mine... apk

  38. 'anything'? No - More vs. any competitor 4 less by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    'anything'? No - More vs. any competitor 4 less & natively! Hosts efficacy recently vs. threats & results in https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://linux.slashdot.org/com... https://news.slashdot.org/comm... https://apple.slashdot.org/com... 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... https://search.slashdot.org/co... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://apple.slashdot.org/com... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://science.slashdot.org/c... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://hardware.slashdot.org/... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

  39. Looks like shitstain APK forgot to sign his work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Looks like shitstain APK forgot to sign his work again.

  40. Re: @ 6' 2" 210 lbs. here currently? LOL, not... a by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your best days were in high school and college. You admit you're not 6'2" 210 lbs any longer. Now you're just an unemployed morbidly obese loser sitting in his $1 house and shouting at people on Slashdot.

  41. Don't ever trust JEWgle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.

    Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.

    This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):

    Mark Zuckerberg stole the Winklevoss twins' code for Fakebook (figures as he is a thieving low jew too).

    Maria Abramovic satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen is a jew https://www.google.com/search?...

    Like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky author of rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer

    "Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer Â- so I wasnÂ't lying Â- and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveÂ" Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...

    Jewish rabbi openly admits to satan worship use white children's blood they kill for passover bread, infiltrating and subverting the catholic church, creating the Jesuit order https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.

    Rabbi A. Finkelstein ADMITS their greatest enemies are ARABS and WHITES (blacks too) whom they wish to kill one another in a 'theater of war' which they find AMUSING https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Finkelstein also admits JEWS DID 9/11 (perpetrated by the Mossad & Bebe Netanyahu of ISRAEL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... profiting by it (and that 3,000 jews employed there did not show up for work that day knowing about it beforehand).

    Finkelstein also admits JEWS are going to destroy the U.S. Dollar and dumping it for other world currencies and gold to destroy the United States.

    George Soros who funds groups to create division in the USA?? A jew. One who sold his own jew people into death for the nazis.

    Zucker now FIRED @ CNN is another frying publicly for lying about "russians" and John Bonifield a producer @ CNN said it is bs. Van Jones did also.

    Bernie Madoff (who made off with everyone's money, especially construction union pensions) shows the thieving nature of the JUDEN!

    Michael Milken (another JEW SCAMMER junk bondsman THIEF)

    Ivan Boesky

    1. Re:Don't ever trust JEWgle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're repeating yourself.

  42. WHAT DOES "CURRENTLY" MEAN idiot? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do you understand the word "currently" moron? I said currently, illiterate moron you are. Was I better then? Man, untouchable shape!

    * I'm a hell of a lot smarter/educated now though & certainly more "world saavy" & I've done well in my life on many levels - very happy w/ my personal results (& only person one REALLY has to answer to is themselves & their conscience).

    APK

    P.S.=> Moron - see subject & LEARN TO READ imbecile (OR are you just another ADD/ADHD/Dyslexic REJECT too? LOL!)... apk

    1. Re: WHAT DOES "CURRENTLY" MEAN idiot? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you were truly proud of your life, you wouldn't be desperately seeking validation on Slashdot.

    2. Re: WHAT DOES "CURRENTLY" MEAN idiot? apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Get back to us when you can tell us what currently mean hehehe and at least APK has something worth validating. You don't and never will troll.

  43. Why not? Will JEWgle lose SHEKELS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.

    Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.

    This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):

    Mark Zuckerberg stole the Winklevoss twins' code for Fakebook (figures as he is a thieving low jew too).

    Maria Abramovic satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen is a jew https://www.google.com/search?...

    Like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky author of rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer

    "Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer Â- so I wasnÂ't lying Â- and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveÂ" Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...

    Jewish rabbi openly admits to satan worship use white children's blood they kill for passover bread, infiltrating and subverting the catholic church, creating the Jesuit order https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.

    Rabbi A. Finkelstein ADMITS their greatest enemies are ARABS and WHITES (blacks too) whom they wish to kill one another in a 'theater of war' which they find AMUSING https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Finkelstein also admits JEWS DID 9/11 (perpetrated by the Mossad & Bebe Netanyahu of ISRAEL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... profiting by it (and that 3,000 jews employed there did not show up for work that day knowing about it beforehand).

    Finkelstein also admits JEWS are going to destroy the U.S. Dollar and dumping it for other world currencies and gold to destroy the United States.

    George Soros who funds groups to create division in the USA?? A jew. One who sold his own jew people into death for the nazis.

    Zucker now FIRED @ CNN is another frying publicly for lying about "russians" and John Bonifield a producer @ CNN said it is bs. Van Jones did also.

    Bernie Madoff (who made off with everyone's money, especially construction union pensions) shows the thieving nature of the JUDEN!

    Michael Milken (another JEW SCAMMER junk bondsman THIEF)

    Ivan Boesky

  44. Re: @ 6' 2" 210 lbs. here currently? LOL, not... a by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dip shit APK probably can't remember how much he weighs as that stupid fuck doesn't even know how old he is. In December he stated that he got himself that iMac he can't figure out how to get out of the box for his birthday he just had, but months before that he stated he was 54. He is now stating he is 54 about to turn 55. He has also stated that he "retired" 12 years ago when he was 46. All APK can do is lie about things so why would his physical attributes be any different.

  45. You did more earlier & better than I? Prove it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Windows NT Magazine April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" pg 61

    (For SuperSpeed.com PAID CONTRACT (wrote SuperCache 40% performance boost) & SuperDisk finalist @ MS Tech Ed 2x in a row 2000-2002 HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement)

    WINDOWS MAGAZINE 1997 "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue pg 210 #1 entry

    PC-WELT FEB 1998 pg 84

    WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 pg 92 MUST HAVE WARE

    PC-WELT FEB 1999 - pg 83

    CHIP Magazine 7/99 - pg 100

    GERMAN PC BOOK Data Becker "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000

    HOT SHAREWARE #46 issue pg. 54 2001

    Paid for article @ PCPitstop in 2008 http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn...

    UltraDefrag64 Process Priority Control credited by lead devs of it in the programs credits section.

    APK

    P.S.=> That's an only PARTIAL list ONTOP of working Fortune 500 down designing what companies LIVE ON data-wise too (while you were in diapers I'd wager) - see subject ANSWER it... apk

  46. Re: @ 6' 2" 210 lbs. here currently? LOL, not... a by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He remembers and from what I read and you don't even understand what the word CURRENTLY meant https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... and we certainly don't see you do more, earlier or better than APK you jealous loser.

  47. Re:Looks like shitstain APK forgot to sign his wor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Beg to differ. APK signed his work and is eating you troll fools alive https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

  48. Ok, prove what you say about yourself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ok, prove what you say about yourself: YOU can't they're lies! After all, what you said of ME libeling me IS LIES too! Answer my question with valid proof in what I just asked of you scumbag PUNK that you are that STALKS me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous like the WEEZIL loser you REALLY are.

    * PROVE ME WRONG!

    (You? Can't lol - illusions & DELUSIONS are all you have - AND HIDING BEHIND UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS & stalking me on /. - lol, you are a LOSER, lmao).

    APK

    P.S.=> I purchased my home, yes from my Pop (I put the work into the place for decades, good house & popped another 35k into it - taxes paid up AHEAD OF TIME by 2 quarters now no less & fully paid off like my SOON TO BE CLASSIC sportscar only 37k miles on it run synthetic Mobil 1 15k (5k oil changes) on magbanded PUROLATOR 1 filters too) - he made GOOD on a deal (my bro came along & I was told "get good grades & we will pay your college" Well, bro put a 'kibosh' on that BUT Dad made good w/ me in the end, great deal) & ANSWER MY QUESTION above, loser... apk

    1. Re:Ok, prove what you say about yourself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I purchased my home, yes from my Pop

      For a whole $1

      I put the work into the place for decades

      Because you lived in the basement rent free

      taxes paid up AHEAD OF TIME by 2 quarters now

      You just paid the taxes that are due every 6 months and won't have to pay until October when they are due again like everyone else does

      my SOON TO BE CLASSIC sportscar

      An early 2000s Hyundai Tiburon which is not a sports car but a 4 seat coup

      only 37k miles on it

      but somehow you are on your 3rd set of breaks, sounds like a shit car to me or a shit driver, probably both.

      run synthetic Mobil 1 15k (5k oil changes) on magbanded PUROLATOR 1 filters too)

      Yet you have to top it up with oil between changes so it has an oil consumption problem, so again shit car or shit driver, probably both.

  49. Do YOU own your own home fully paid off? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do YOU own your own home fully paid off? Answer that. No, you live under a bridge w/ other HEROIN JUNKIES like you, lol - prove otherwise.

    I never EVER lived in a basement fool & city taxes here are done QUARTERLY stupid (proving YOU don't understand taxation & that you do NOT own your own home).

    APK

    P.S.=> Sorry but my car is in games like "GTA" & it's not the 4 cyl. model but a 6 cyl. (on 4 cyl. bodyweight - good POWER TO WEIGHT ratio for performance) & I put in a TRUE dual-exhaust + chip reprogrammed (for low-end gain) & a cold-air intake to make it EVEN BETTER - & the kids in the neighborhood want to buy it (especially this rich Arab storeowner's kid) & I've done brakes on it 2x iirc MYSELF (I liked to race it - this car's NO PUSSY & I broke it in so it would NOT be) - & are you STUPID? I never said it leaks oil OR that I "top it off" - motor block & all is TIGHT AS A DRUM, no leaks... apk

    1. Re:Do YOU own your own home fully paid off? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I never EVER lived in a basement

      Stop lying, yes you have, there is the EULA from one of your older shitware programs floating around that states your address as your current one (from before your bought that dump in the slum from your pops for a buck) but as being the lower level.

      city taxes here are done QUARTERLY stupid (proving YOU don't understand taxation

      Actually my city trusts it's residents to not be deadbeats, but you are right I don't know how the shithole of Syracuse works, nor would I want to.

      Sorry but my car is in games like "GTA"

      So is a Subaru 360 but no one says they are a sports car because they aren't just like your shit box

      (on 4 cyl. bodyweight - good POWER TO WEIGHT ratio for performance

      And my actual real sports car weighs in at about 1/3rd of what your bloated coup comes in at, even with me in it. Mine also puts out about double what yours has for horse power. I'm getting close to the sport bike power to weight ratio, not the low end import coup range like you.

      I put in a TRUE dual-exhaust + chip reprogrammed (for low-end gain) & a cold-air intake

      So you managed to do some faggot wanna be boi racer mods, again that doesn't make your shit box a sports car. Let me know when you know how to actually soup up a car. Like what I did with my actual sports car. Such things like putting in a posi diff, a +60 overbore, zero gap rings, roller rocker conversion, a cam change, changing to an optical distributor with custom curves, 3 angle valve job, converting to a different fuel, forged alloy pistons, lightened balanced knife edged crank, shaved the head to get to 14:1 compression, an over driven super charger giving 10psi of boost, etc. Then there were a bunch of other much more minor things and highly custom exotic work.

      the kids in the neighborhood want to buy it (especially this rich Arab storeowner's kid)

      Because they are also faggot wanna be boi racers like you.

      I liked to race it

      So what license do you have or do you just live out your "The Slow and the Delirious" dreams out on the street like the loser you are.

      I never said it leaks oil OR that I "top it off"

      Yes you have said you top it off between oil changes but unlike the psychopath you are I don't bookmark every post you have ever made, or any of them.

  50. No big deal: Hosts put it right... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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 u hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploit!

    * Ping a URL you can't speak to? LOL - good luck! Hosts block the URL used!

    APK

    P.S.=> Protects vs. scripts/trackers (kernelmode faster vs. usermode slower NoScript vs. 3rd party script)/ads/DNS request tracking + redirect poisoned or downed DNS/botnets/malware download/malcript/email malpayload

  51. Hosts efficacy recently vs. threats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See my subject line & results in https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://linux.slashdot.org/com... https://news.slashdot.org/comm... https://apple.slashdot.org/com... 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... https://search.slashdot.org/co... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://apple.slashdot.org/com... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://science.slashdot.org/c... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://hardware.slashdot.org/... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

    * That

  52. Security pros etc. QUOTED on hosts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "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&amp.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

  53. Even CHINA copied me (vs. DNS down/redirected) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Who did it 1st: China or me? I did - dates are my proof https://theregister.co.uk/2017... w/ the FACT China rampantly STEALS U.S. Intellectual properties & military secrets https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

    * IMITATION truly IS the SINCEREST FORM of FLATTERY!!!

    (... & proves hosts work vs. DNS faults in tracking you via dns request logs (since you avoid it & resolve FASTER locally using hosts) + DNS being downed OR Kaminsky REDIRECT security flaw misdirected poisoned (or vs. DNSChanger))

    US DHS issues DNS redirect is HUGE danger (not w/ hosts vs.) https://threatpost.com/gov-war... & ICANN ISSUES SAME WARNING https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

    APK

    P.S.=> Folks, It's NOT EASY being "World-Class" like me (lol - 200,000++ users prove it for me) - enjoy the fruits of my labors for FREE + going FASTER/SAFER/MORE RELIABLY online (w/ a bit more anonymity too via my program)... apk

  54. Registered /.ers reviews #1/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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

    My HOSTS files are pretty large. Helps me avoid all sorts of trash and malware. - by Cutterman (789191) on Sunday January 20, 2019 @03:20PM (#5799265)

    * For the Win32/64 model.

    APK

    P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient/better MERGE feature too - More coming... apk

  55. Registered /.ers reviews #2/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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

  56. Registered /.ers reviews #3/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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

  57. Registered /.ers reviews #4/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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

  58. Registered /.ers reviews #5/5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (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

  59. Dup by grep+-v+'.*'+* · · Score: 1

    Previous Article vs Some Details vs Ublock setting.

    --
    If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
  60. More accurate reviews of APK's software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK can find 30 or so out-of-context quotes appearing to support his work. Yet he has received literally thousands of comments saying how bad his work is. His work is reviewed favorably about 1% of the time, with everyone else saying it sucks.

    Do you really want to use software with a 1% approval rating? That's probably even worse than some malware.

    APK's software is horribly inefficient. It cannot be cronned and run regularly, which is an inconvenience for users. It is closed source and could very well contain malware. There still isn't a MacOS version, despite APK repeatedly pledging that the software was just about ready. The software just isn't that effective at stopping threats when compared with solutions that employ a combination of whitelisting and blacklisting. These are just some reasons why this software receives horrible reviews.

    1. Re:More accurate reviews of APK's software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You did better? Nobody says anything good about your work that doesn't exist. His windows one runs automatically and works https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... very well from those results.

  61. 2019 is the year of collusion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The browsers are just hopping on the bandwagon that Trump started.

  62. Been using Firefox since it was called Netscape by waspleg · · Score: 1

    Fuck. Your. A(i)ds.

  63. Re:Looks like shitstain APK forgot to sign his wor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Beg to differ. APK signed his work and is eating you troll fools alive https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

    APK is a cannibal?

  64. Repeat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Isn't this just https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/04/07/2338244/several-major-browsers-to-prevent-disabling-of-click-tracking-hyperlink-auditing again?

  65. Knew it - you have no home of your own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    LOL! I live in the lower level (always have) - there is also a basement level beneath it (this is a 4 level home fool) - you LOSE loser.

    See subject: You really DO LOSE, loser.

    I've had a 72 Chevelle SS too (1980-1984) & sold it to go to school but it was built as BUILT can get.

    So go away & go back to living UNDER A BRIDGE junkie, lol!

    APK

    P.S.=> You sure "talk a lot" but you haven't got SHIT, lol... apk

    1. Re:Knew it - you have no home of your own by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A smog motor american not sports car, not impressed.

  66. From YOU? With NOTHING @ ALL?? LOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    From YOU? With NOTHING @ ALL?? LOL! Please... give me a break!

    APK

    P.S.=> You're 1 pitiful bastard, lol... apk

  67. Example of one hosts files stopped... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    0.0.0.0 booc.gz.bcebos.com

    * PER SOURCE https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...

    APK