I appreciate giving people the benefit of the doubt, but this feels overly charitable to me. I doubt they’re worried about accidentally misconfigured /etc/hosts

I appreciate giving people the benefit of the doubt, but this feels overly charitable to me. I doubt they’re worried about accidentally misconfigured /etc/hosts files. Much more likely is that they were aware of outbound firewalls like Little Snitch and want to evade user attempts to block their software, as discussed in the main article here.