begoneads

Since accepting Host files from someone on the internet can be dangerous I dug into the code: The list of hosts to exclude comes from several sites here: https://github.com/anned20/begoneads/blob/2c90fcee221edf71f8... The actual application of the hosts file is here: https://github.com/anned20/begoneads/blob/2c90fcee221edf71f8... I missed something though. Is a simple domain name per line enough to send that content to /dev/null? I haven’t used that form in /etc/hosts. My primary concern was that this technique could be used to send ad traffic to a site that returns 404 but gathers metrics on the web regardless.