I have added google.com, google.co.uk, and google-analytics.com to redirect to localhost in my hosts file.
Restarted networking stack, firefox does not respect it.
Restarted entire system, firefox still does not respect it.
Where am I going wrong? I am fucking sick of google and want to cut them out completely.
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Anonymous2013-06-22 8:31
can't you just firewall them?
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Anonymous2013-06-22 8:34
Can't you just not go to their sites?
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!L33tUKZj5I2013-06-22 8:34
>>2
I'd rather work out why firefox won't respect my hosts file.
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!L33tUKZj5I2013-06-22 8:35
>>3
But so many sites load google shit in the background, especially analytics stuff. Even if I never go to any google sites, I will still be tracked. I do not want this.
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Anonymous2013-06-22 8:40
localhost might look like an error?
or firefox might just be being clever and noticing it is wrong?
blacklisting the google subnet should work though..
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Anonymous2013-06-22 8:42
It's best you leave the internet all together.
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!L33tUKZj5I2013-06-22 8:47
>>6
I know it's firefox thinking it is wrong and ignoring it. Ping respects my settings perfectly.
This is really quite infuriating.
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Anonymous2013-06-22 8:47
ideally, you'd have all addresses bar a bunch of proxies blacklisted... that'd be neat eh?
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!L33tUKZj5I2013-06-22 8:52
>>9
Ideally, my hosts file would work system wide. that would be even neater.
I went into about:config and typed DNS into the search bar. There were some entries, including one for network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod - which I set to zero. Exited the browser, restarted it, and now all is well.
Apart from the fact that the captcha on the imageboards is hosted by google, so I can no longer post there. Expect to see more of me here now.
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Anonymous2013-06-22 10:18
l337 just use tor and erase cookies/cache regularly
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Anonymous2013-06-22 13:42
>>15
too bad NSA FBI own like 70% of all tor nodes
>>14 Apart from the fact that the captcha on the imageboards is hosted by google, so I can no longer post there. Expect to see more of me here now.
Does Reddit have captcha? You might want to consider going there instead.
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Anonymous2013-06-22 16:45
Ew leet why do you imagereddits?
Terrible!
Just hang out at SAoVQ.
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Anonymous2013-06-22 19:22
>>5
Yeah. We need some anti-Google browser, which would block/fake everything Google related and replace google.com with an independent proxy.
Although it would be hard to block recaptcha.
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!L33tUKZj5I2013-06-22 23:06
>>21 Yeah. We need some anti-Google browser, which would block/fake everything Google related and replace google.com with an independent proxy.
No. It's gone too far. I don't want to proxy anything, I just want it cut off. If any website wants to load this stuff, and make it a condition of viewing their website then they can just fuck right off.
I am eating my toe skin in fury.
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Anonymous2013-06-23 3:15
l33t why google in particular?
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Anonymous2013-06-23 14:59
It's not enough, L33t. You have to block the google+ button, youtube, blogger, google maps, google hosted libs and so on. Get the list of all Google data centers IP ranges and redirect everything to localhost.