uber leet hosts file is back

by | Aug 20, 2019 | Technology

I have begun updating a personally curated, collected, merged, de-duped hosts file here: https://www.iruberleet.org/hosts-file/

The regular version blocks ads, trackers, malware, spyware, gambling, fake news, fraud, cryptomining and a bunch of other bad things. It has around 40000 blocked hosts and is about 1mb in size.

The BIG version is about 22mb in size with over 700000 hosts blocked, it includes many more sources and also blocks pornography and social networking.

I personally use the regular version on all of my devices, computers and routers.

For more general information on hosts files, check out the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)

Google announces increase of ad-placements on Android Home screens, search and YouTube

by | May 23, 2019 | Rant, Technology

Google has announced this month that they will be increasing the placement of advertisements on Android Home screens and YouTube’s recommended videos.

These new ads will be in the form of (static) image galleries which you can scroll through. These kinds of ads will likely be harder to block out, particularly in YouTube’s recommended video list.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/14/18623541/google-gallery-discovery-mobile-ads-announced