I agree with everyone else that the number of hosts reached at startup, by itself, it absolutely useless. There are better articles, personally I like https://d

I agree with everyone else that the number of hosts reached at startup, by itself, it absolutely useless. There are better articles, personally I like https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers which goes into greater detail, examining the purpose of the connections, not only at startup. It does tend to label even some requests (such as updates checking) as spyware, but everything is explained so you can still come to your own conclusions.