URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies

• hosts

  306 25,494 9.4 Python

  🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

[0] is perhaps even more concerning - apparently it bears a striking resemblance to Steven Black's (slightly more reputable) list. [1]

[0] https://gitlab.com/The_Quantum_Alpha/the-quantum-ad-list/-/i...

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

• static-redirect

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I had been using a personal URL shortener on & off since 2009. Bit.ly custom domain, goo.gl, yourls on a php server, bit.do, & many others. Even a static site Jekyll powered one at https://gitlab.com/davch/static-redirect

I could not use YOURLS because its too much maintenance demanding, like any other php script. Server vulnerabilities, versions, errors. Bitly custom domain because you can't customize the word after slash. Its still going to be random. Bit.do was/is fun, & good.

Then I got introduced to Firebase, at that time recently acquired by Google. Dynamic Links, with myWord.page.link subdomain. I got few, 5 max subdomains were allowed initially. I made two projects, & total have 8 subdomains with page.link ending. Now they even allow custom domains, & it is even default option. I am using that not from about 2-3 years.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ClearUrls

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You can do this with an extension like https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls

I found that it broke some sites though so I removed it.

• hosts-blocklists

  25 2,298 0.0

  Discontinued Automatically updated, moderated and optimized lists for blocking ads, trackers, malware and other garbage

You might want to consider checking for hosts listed in https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists

This is an excellent merged blocklist, with public whitelist (oisd is fully closed, no insight in what is whitelisted and why, also causing more false positives..)

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