Hosts: Mysterious inclusion of addons.mozilla.org

Created on 23 Feb 2017 · 11Comments · Source: StevenBlack/hosts

Latest update of _Unified hosts file with social extensions_ includes _addons.mozilla.org_

First, amazing to find _addons.mozilla.org_ in the list, so I checked each and every Raw hosts and found no entry of _addons.mozilla.org_

The file including _addons.mozilla.org_ : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/alternates/social/hosts

The Raw hosts checked individually from : https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/alternates/social/readme.md

Who wouldn't be,
1- Surprised to find _addons.mozilla.org_ in a HOSTS file,
2- Have an entry included in a unified HOSTS file but not in either the sources of the concatenation?

I really appreciate this work, but I have to mention my surprise and of course my eager to understand how and why this oddity is possible. Thanks.

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ghost

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Sorry guys, copy and paste error from the early days of my list. Was fixed in https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Badd-Boyz-Hosts/commit/96aa234e149e00365fb12e2531dcf21c9034dc7e yesterday. I do a check instead on my bad bot blockers for the word "iloveitaly" and no longer as it was in the referrers list. Apologies. Busy with big clean up today, dropping all dead / no longer existing domains and any other false positives I find. also fixed eaplay.ru/a00af605 to just eaplay.ru in yesterdays commit.

mitchellkrogza on 23 Feb 2017

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WoW don't use firefox but I'm surprised too 😮 Didn't noticed it!

funilrys on 23 Feb 2017

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It seems the _addons.mozilla.org entry_ comes from the _Mitchell Krog's - Badd Boyz Hosts_ list included in the _Unified hosts file with social extensions_ installed this very morning.

In this _Unified hosts file with social extensions_ , at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/alternates/social/hosts, _addons.mozilla.org_ appears under the _Mitchell Krog's - Badd Boyz Hosts_ source entry, which is dated Wed Feb 22 15:59:54 SAST 2017

Latest list of _Mitchell Krog's - Badd Boyz Hosts_ available, raw, at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitchellkrogza/Badd-Boyz-Hosts/master/hosts is dated Thu Feb 23 11:51:02 SAST 2017

This may be an explanation though I don't think so because I didn't encounter the issue until this morning whilst I've been using _Unified hosts file with social extensions_ for over a week, and updates replace and do not add, here.

ghost on 23 Feb 2017

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I found it too, I just commented it out, but is eerie, I was actually gonna report it here. You beat me to it. Cheers! Also, not sure why I'm getting it then, I don't use socials extension.

thedummy06 on 23 Feb 2017

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@thedummy06 , social entries add to others, they are not exclusive of other lists.

ghost on 23 Feb 2017

Reference: #248

funilrys on 23 Feb 2017

mitchellkrogza on 23 Feb 2017

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@funilrys thanks for the link/info
@mitchellkrogza OK, thanks for acknowledging. The purpose was not to accuse/condemn but to understand. Cold case!

ghost on 23 Feb 2017

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No problem at all, merging my list has also quickly helped me pick up some errors and problems. All for the better as I use a single list for multiple projects and it needs to be clean.

mitchellkrogza on 23 Feb 2017

Thanks everybody! The latest sources are pushed to master here.