Hosts: listed / commented conflicts

[braian87b]

Hi, I just seeing the merged file:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
if you find (ctrl+f)
googletagservices

there is found these lines:

0.0.0.0 googletagservices.com
0.0.0.0 www.googletagservices.com
#0.0.0.0 www.googletagservices.com      #interferes with techrepublic

So... how we should deal with these?, I suggest to add to the script a search to interferes comment and those domain remove them from the file.

What do you think?

Same for these...

0.0.0.0 googletagmanager.com
0.0.0.0 www.googletagmanager.com
# 0.0.0.0 www.googletagmanager.com #[affects ASUS]

for googleanalytics and analytics google if people actually wants them working, like me, it also need googletagmanager, since as far I know googletagmanager is a tool to have a single tag on sites to send statistics to tagmanager and not to deal putting and removing several tracking tags on sites. etc... right?

[StevenBlack]

Hi Braian @braian87b, grepping this we see a broad consensus about this. Several sources agree, block this.

data/mvps.org/hosts
5877:0.0.0.0 www.googletagservices.com

data/someonewhocares.org/hosts
905:0.0.0.0 googletagservices.com
2023:#0.0.0.0 www.googletagservices.com     #interferes with techrepublic

data/StevenBlack/hosts
100:0.0.0.0 www.googletagservices.com

data/tiuxo/hosts
2094:0.0.0.0 www.googletagservices.com

data/yoyo.org/hosts
1743:0.0.0.0 googletagservices.com

[braian87b]

Interesting way to evaluate it, by concensus...
Do you have it at hand necessary commands for grep multiple sources at a time for evaluating like that?

It will be handy to me.

[StevenBlack]

@braian87b I use ack on the repo root.

[spirillen]

My good how hard is it ???

grep -Ri 'domain\.tld' path/to/search

in this case grep -Ri 'googletagservices\.com' data/

You do not nessesary have to use the backslash but it will come in handy at some point. A . in combination with grep is a wildcard, but the backslash tells grep that this is a dot and nothing but a dot. It can also be written as [.]

[StevenBlack]

@spirillen consider this is an official warning: you will be nice to visitors here, or YOU will not be here.

[braian87b]

Sorry, I forget about grep -Ri I actually used several times months ago.
Thanks.

[spirillen]

Why not just answer the users straight up?

@braian87b asked straight up

Do you have it at hand necessary commands for grep multiple sources at a time for evaluating like that?

That what I answered him. But you obviously have a huge issue about other, and you are close to be reported for harassment @StevenBlack

[braian87b]

Relax both of you, no problem at all, I am accustomed to several kind of responses like the ones that Linus Torvals usually use, this is nothing in comparision.

[StevenBlack]

Notes:

• The first notification was here.
• Official warning is here above.
• December 19, 2019 4:20 PM blocked.