Blokada: [Request] Add this small hosts list to block most Android trackers

[beerisgood]

This small hosts list block most of known trackers founded in Exodus

Should be enabled in Blokada by default or included in other default lists.

[kar]

Nice. Any kind of homepage for this list?

[beerisgood]

Homepage/ source is in #2 line in that list

[jawz101]

Might I recommend my list?
https://github.com/jawz101/MobileAdTrackers

[beerisgood]

Also this lists is nice too: https://media.kuketz.de/lists/mobile_list.txt
(From a german IT security & privacy blog): https://www.kuketz-blog.de/tracking-und-ads-filterliste-vom-kuketz-blog/

@jawz101 you should include these domains too. Also looks you already include the domains from my first post. Nice!

[peterroth]

Before every recommended lists are included, can you please check if the hosts in those lists aren't included in another list (for example Energized Basic or a bigger one)? Blokada filters duplicates and it's useless to enable a list that hosts' are already 1:1 included in one

[jawz101]

I believe energized might merge mine into theirs... which would then include these Exodus domains as I had merged theirs a while ago.

I personally don't use a big list on my phone because they are more targeted to browsers where i already have an ad blocker there.

[peterroth]

@beerisgood could you check if the list you mentioned isn't present in another list, like in Goodbye Ads or Energized?

[beerisgood]

@rpeter85

@beerisgood could you check if the list you mentioned isn't present in another list, like in Goodbye Ads or Energized?

My first posted link is included in GoodbyeAds

Same for second list from Kuketz, but without these domains:

• app-measurement.com
• yandex.ru

[MicroBeast]

Per Blokada 3.6.101900, the default hosts list was Energized Blu.
This list seem too overkill. I found informaction.com was blocked, that domain used by NoScript forum.

I don't know what else this list broke, I rarely visit random site except those known famous these days. So, consider my post as just an info if some people come ranting here. Sure advance users know what to do if something broke.

Oh, and don't bother to try Energized Ultimate. From uBlock0 logger, it blocked so many networks I'm too scared to imagine.

[jawz101]

Personally, I just like Steven Blacks and mine. An equivalent list might be the Energized Spark list, but reading what lists are in the bigger packages, and trying them on my pfSense box, they get very retarded very quickly as you go up to any of the larger Energized lists.

[MicroBeast]

Yeah same, I also use StevenBlack list. It's a good starter hosts list for merged type. From there, I just visit https://filterlists.com/ and cherry pick anything needed.

[beerisgood]

StevenBlack doesn't include the domains from list I posted

[androidacybot]

How about this extreme extension from Energized? On almost every list, >4k hosts aren't included.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EnergizedProtection/block/master/extensions/xtreme/formats/hosts

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[beerisgood]

The energized lists have to much false positives

[androidacybot]

Energized doesn't have many false positives (in my experience) and you can whitelist sites if needed

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[peterroth]

@jawz101 MAT will be added to the default lists soon, thank you for the recommendation.

kuketz.de's list is unavailable, couldn't check that. Seems they closed their doors.

I want to follow up on this lists, so is there any other that we could add to the default list?

[eladkarako]

@beerisgood that's a great list but in its current state it is only useful as a
browser's adblock-rules list (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases) since it misses
most of the actual subdomains that are used in ads-downloading, report sending, etc...

See this micro-list I've composed to use in my D-Link router,
(it only had 40-places in its admin web-interface...)

pagead2.googlesyndication.com
googleads.g.doubleclick.net
pubads.g.doubleclick.net
adserver.adtechus.com
widgets.outbrain.com
adserver.adtech.de
ad.doubleclick.net
adclick.g.doubleclick.net
odb.outbrain.com
ad.atdmt.com
adsserving.net
static.doubleclick.net
www.googletagservices.com
adnxs.com
ads.trafficjunky.net
advertising.com
doubleclick.net
stats.g.doubleclick.net
cm.g.doubleclick.net
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
securepubads.g.doubleclick.com
pagead2.googlesyndication.net
media.admob.com
admob.com
pagead.l.doubleclick.net
server.exposebox.com
pagead2.googleadservices.com
googleadservices.com
www.googletagmanager.com
googletagmanager.com
api.crashlytics.com
bid.g.doubleclick.net
crashlytics.com
cm.crashlytics.com
e.crashlytics.com
reports.crashlytics.com
settings.crashlytics.com
support.crashlytics.com
tpc.googlesyndication.com
c.amazon-adsystem.com

as you can see crashlytics.com is used along with reports.crashlytics.com,
blocking doubleclick.net is ok I guess, but note that most of the native google gms ads are downloaded from securepubads.g.doubleclick.net now.

I'm using tools such as https://github.com/eladkarako/Domain-subdomains-With-VirusTotal-API-and-NodeJS (along with my virustotal API key) to grab more sub-domains for each new domain I find.

Here is what I got after running that tool for each of your domains in the list,
along with adding the common www subdomain for each one,
and it is also possible to add the wss and ws subdomains to block potential websocket connections.

Naturally those kind of lists tend to get really big, and not every domain uses the www or wss subdomain...
... this is why when I've tried to auto-generate a HOSTS list of my own (https://hosts.eladkarako.com), it got to about 40MB including all those sub-domains... :))

Most of the android apps can't even handle those sizes,
so its mostly used for a HOSTS replacement in windows and rooted linux/android devices.