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The "Intelligent Lists" feature blocks google contacts sync & personal details #828

Open MartinX3 opened 3 years ago

MartinX3 commented 3 years ago

By default it blocks silently the google contacts & personal details syncing.
Calendar, tables and presentations are fine.
Sadly the android system doesn't give me a message, just an old sync date, if I look into the google account sync page.

Hostlist: Energized Blu (recommended) DNS: Default Setting: Intelligent Lists

Blocked domains: people-pa.googleapis.com -> personal details people-pa.googleapis.com -> contacts

Workaround: Adding this URL to the whitelist

But it shouldn't be blocked by default, since it isn't a advertising URL.

peterroth commented 3 years ago

It worth to know Blokada blocks only those hostnames that are on the enabled lists. As you mentioned above, that is Energized Blu. I checked this list and I didn't find those entries:

~/Downloads: wget https://block.energized.pro/blu/formats/hosts
--2021-01-27 13:43:19--  https://block.energized.pro/blu/formats/hosts
...
2021-01-27 13:43:21 (5,51 MB/s) -- "hosts" saved [9564764/9564764]
~/Downloads: grep -i "googleapis.com" hosts
0.0.0.0 1.chromefeedcontentsuggestions-pa.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 ad-creatives-public.commondatastorage.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 appsitemsuggest-pa.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 chromecontentsuggestions-pa.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 chromefeedcontentsuggestions-pa.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 clouderrorreporting.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 crashlyticsreports-pa.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 firebaselogging.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 firebaselogging-pa.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 mobilecrashreporting.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 mobiledataplansharing.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 www.appsitemsuggest-pa.googleapis.com
0.0.0.0 www.chromecontentsuggestions-pa.googleapis.com
~/Downloads: grep "people-pa.googleapis.com" hosts
~/Downloads:

Do you use any other list?

MartinX3 commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your response.

That's weird. I don't use any other list and never changed anything.

I also activated the beta "intelligent lists" feature. But that shouldn't add extra blacklists?

I also forced a sync of the filter with the same result. Blokada blocks the url.

EDIT: It seems to be the "Intelligent Lists" feature which caused the block. I updated the issue ticket.

peterroth commented 3 years ago

That very odd because the Smart List feature is not blocking things on its own. It checks which hostnames are being blocked for you day by day and writes a separate list, so later you can use the newly created, custom list and disable the general, much bigger list/s.

MartinX3 commented 3 years ago

That's weird, i never used a different filter. I wiped now this list and this feature doesn't block it anymore.

Would it be bug if the list just blocks the URL the next day, because it blocked the URL the day before without being in the blocker filter list, only in the smart list?

MartinX3 commented 3 years ago

Somehow it started to block the contacts sync url again today, so I put this URL into the whitelist