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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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Remove adf.ly from hosts #607

Closed Extamov closed 6 years ago

Extamov commented 6 years ago

adf.ly is a url shortener that has ads, if adf.ly will be blocked, links shortenered with adf.ly will also be blocked.

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StevenBlack commented 6 years ago

Hi @ExtendLord adf.ly is blocked by three different sources: Badd-Boyz-Hosts, someonewhocares.org, and yoyo.org.

Please take this up with the three sources who have independently judged this to be blockworthy. I agree with them.

Closing.

kronflux commented 6 years ago

Agreed, But just to add emphasis and clarity to this, a very large portion of the purpose of this hosts list is to block ads.

adf.ly is NOT a standard url shortener, but rather an advertising redirect site intended to use proceeds from displaying ads to profit those using the service. (IE: you sign up, you shorten links and provide the shortened link to someone, they click the link and view an ad, a portion of the ad revenue is then given to you)

I would recommend you try to avoid adf.ly links, but if you MUST use them, you have three options: 1) Remove the adf.ly entry from the hosts list manually 2) Use the provided scripts to generate a hosts list, using the whitelist file to add adf.ly 3) Use a 3rd party URL decoder service to convert the adf.ly link to the original URL(there are several out there, trueurl.net is one example)

Extamov commented 6 years ago

@StevenBlack @kronflux bc.vc is also an advertising redirect site but it is not blocked. Why's that? My counter bypasser can't bypass that while it can bypass adf.ly

funilrys commented 6 years ago

Well, thanks for pointing out bc.vc will be blocked.

funilrys commented 6 years ago

@StevenBlack bc.vc has been added to Badd-Boyz in order not to be partial regarding what @ExtendLord mentioned previously.

No need to update yet it will only be automatically added to the hosts file after PyFunceble finished its tests.

Cheers.