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AirBnb refuses to allow hosts to block guests

AirBnb and Uber changed the world with its sharing economy business model that allows resource owners to maximise the use of their resource (be it a car or a spare bedroom) should the resource be unused. These platforms have grown enormously in popularity over the last decade. Given that these platforms wish to maximise their… Read More »

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 »