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Block Spying + Ads + Apple + Youtube + Microsoft through /etc/hosts

Autoupdates, spying, computer’s bandwidth being used up by applications that are copying data to some NSA cloud server is really getting to me. This is the /etc/hosts file on the Apple Mac that blocks some of the unwanted traffic:- 127.0.0.1 192.150.14.69 127.0.0.1 192.150.18.101 127.0.0.1 192.150.18.108 127.0.0.1 192.150.22.40 127.0.0.1 192.150.8.100 127.0.0.1 192.150.8.118 127.0.0.1 209-34-83-73.ood.opsource.net 127.0.0.1 3dns-1.adobe.com… Read More »