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Somewhat related, a thing I found suspicious, though not surprising, the last time I tried it: Try Googling for how to block all Google Analytics and related s

Somewhat related, a thing I found suspicious, though not surprising, the last time I tried it: Try Googling for how to block all Google Analytics and related services in your Hosts file. Does it seem harder to find a simple list of IP addresses + instructions than it should be? While Google Search results quality has gone down across the board in the last 3 or so years, it seemingly tries particularly hard to pretend it doesn’t understand what you mean with queries like these.

anchpop 7y ago
Why would Google put itself under insane risk from anti-anticompetitve regulation and huge bad PR just to prevent a tiny minority of users from blocking google analytics?
- StuffedParrot 7y ago
  This is hardly unusual for them; they removed the ability to blacklist sites from domains because people were blacklisting commercial sites.
  - Semaphor 7y ago
    Do you have any source for that? Otherwise, it’s just as much conjecture as the other claim.
    - StuffedParrot 7y ago
      I recommend googling :)
mortehu 7y ago
There's not going to be a simple list of IP addresses for any service behind an ever changing global collection of load balancers shared with a number of other services.
emiliobumachar 7y ago
Do you get better results for that with other search engines?
kevinh 7y ago
When I type "block google analytics hosts file" into Google, the first three results are guides on how to do that.
- deleted 7y ago
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pujjad 7y ago
This might help: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Apart from adware and malware it offers to block url's falling into other categories like fakenews, social, gambling, and porn.
Zren 7y ago
Googling "hosts zero" should give you a good block list. Google is rarely the only thing people want to block, so it makes sense that there isn't $company specific instructions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743202 https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/ https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/

anchpop 7y ago

Why would Google put itself under insane risk from anti-anticompetitve regulation and huge bad PR just to prevent a tiny minority of users from blocking google analytics?

StuffedParrot 7y ago
This is hardly unusual for them; they removed the ability to blacklist sites from domains because people were blacklisting commercial sites.
- Semaphor 7y ago
  Do you have any source for that? Otherwise, it’s just as much conjecture as the other claim.
  - StuffedParrot 7y ago
    I recommend googling :)

mortehu 7y ago

There's not going to be a simple list of IP addresses for any service behind an ever changing global collection of load balancers shared with a number of other services.

emiliobumachar 7y ago

Do you get better results for that with other search engines?

kevinh 7y ago

When I type "block google analytics hosts file" into Google, the first three results are guides on how to do that.

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pujjad 7y ago

This might help: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Apart from adware and malware it offers to block url's falling into other categories like fakenews, social, gambling, and porn.

Zren 7y ago

Googling "hosts zero" should give you a good block list. Google is rarely the only thing people want to block, so it makes sense that there isn't $company specific instructions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743202 https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/ https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/