StevenBlack / hosts

🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
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Don't block videolan.org #2082

Closed pssandhu closed 2 years ago

pssandhu commented 2 years ago

www.videolan.org is the homepage of VLC media player

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/05272f9a1f034450b8c4fe317203d25249f02be9/extensions/porn/bigdargon/hosts#L926

I assume this accidentally slipped in again (#240).

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bigdargon commented 2 years ago

@pssandhu Sorry! I will remove it!

FadeMind commented 2 years ago

@StevenBlack many false positives here.

StevenBlack commented 2 years ago

Thanks for this @pssandhu.

Thank you for the quick reply @bigdargon.

Tomasz @FadeMind can you provide examples?

FadeMind commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/bigdargon/hostsVN/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+label%3A%22false+positive%22

It is not often, but happen. Someones are criticals, other just mistaken (like vlc twice).

StevenBlack commented 2 years ago

Thanks everybody.

Closing.