Re: url: metrics.* being blocked

On 3/30/20, Klavs Klavsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was hoping you guys was on an open git repo somewhere, so I could do a
> pull request :)
>
> But I would suggest the metrics block - be changed to hit ONLY the exact
> domain that the comment says it blocks ?

Blocking everything that starts with "metrics." is, at least for me, a
pretty good rule.
Take a look at
  https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

$ grep ' metrics\.' unified-hosts.txt | wc -l
224

and the only exceptions I have are
$ grep metrics unblock.action
.metrics.mozilla.com/
.metrics.lua.powerdns.org/
.metrics.powerdns.org/
.metrics.torproject.org/

Lee


> Ian Silvester wrote on 27.03.2020 20.20:
>> Hi Klavs,
>>
>> My take is that the default blocking was compiled back in the relatively
>> 'innocent' days of the web, when "metrics" would always have implied
>> something sinister - before the advent of the concept of web applications
>> and such. You're of course free to modify your own configuration to remove
>> that rule from the default or match-all actions files or, better, suggest
>> a modified unblocker rule that allows results from the tool you use to be
>> added into the default files.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, at 04:18, Klavs Klavsen wrote:
>>> I can see that default config i my privoxy (ubuntu 18.04) - has this:
>>>
>>> # Blocked URL = http://metrics.performancing.com/
>>> metrics.
>>>
>>>
>>> Which blocks everything starting with metrics. - and NOT just the site
>>> mentioned :(
>>>
>>> This hurt me-  as I needed to get metrics from my influxdb backend (as
>>> grafana pulls metrics from stuff) - and it seems a bit careless, to
>>> simply disallow ANY domain with metrics first ?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Klavs Klavsen, GSEC - [email protected] - http://www.vsen.dk - Tlf. 61281200
>>>
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