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Galaxy 2.0 has issues because remote-config.gog.com gets blocked via a1847.b.akamai.net

https://github.com/KodoPengin/GameIndustry-hosts-Template/blame/2c26c5a731d5b0b3377fe7e5e2e57b964858d0b7/Main-Template/hosts#L45465

Fontawesome is used for font rendering on many websites. Shouldn't be blocked by default.

Hello! the domain camo.githubusercontent.com is blocked in Main-Template. it is used by github to convert an image of a url to an anonymized one.

Example: this image link will be converted to this url (by deploying the following html code in github):
<img src="https://www.gameindustry.eu/images/header/gi_logo_2021.webp" />

An App that wants to subscribe to the FirebaseCloudMessaging system for push notifications needs firebaseinstallations.googleapis.com in all or at least multiple cases according to https://www.kuketz-blog.de/google-firebase-zwingend-erforderlich-fuer-den-empfang-von-push-nachrichten/
This in itself doesn't constitute tracking or advertising.
I think you should remove it

i think we should not block ocsp servers for security reasons.

Hello,

at the moment, the list blocks
part-0017.t-0009.t-msedge.net
I suppose this is a false positive.
F. ex. this blocks login at https://www.lichtblick.de/konto/

0.0.0.0 time.is

why?

You block graph.facebook.com in Android-Full-Template , therefore i assume this one should be blocked as well

abs-zero.twimg.com is a cname for abs-0.twimg.com
This domain stores svg files for Twitters emojis.
If there are no other uses for this hostname, i think this can safely be removed.

The Main Template list blocks www.bing.com, which is not a malicious domain in itself.

cs570.wac.deltacdn.net is the alias for cfg.gog.com .
When this is blacklisted the client complains about problems and won't import new games into the list.

Also is a cname for images.gog.com.

I had to unblock a1948.b.akamai.net to be able to login on the Galaxy Client.

users.gog.com. | 300 | CNAME | users.gog.com.edgesuite.net.
users.gog.com.edgesuite.net. | 21600 | CNAME | a1948.b.akamai.net.

s3.amazonaws.com is used for storage for quite a few services.
I couldn't download howtos we ordered online because they are stored on Amazon Web Services.

This domain is commented out for Weed Inc: Idle Tycoon but blocked for Cash, Inc. so maybe you should go for subdomains as you did for Foodpia Tycoon - Idle restaurant?

Videos for games are hosted onmedia-cdn.epicgames.com which is an alias for d1dxcvubdbe4ji.cloudfront.net .
Therefore the videos fail to load.

GoG offers an SDK for game developers to allow achievement tracking and social features.
Your list interferes with the function of this SDK and a few GalaxyClient features.
Here the blocked hostnames and what they are used for:

notifications.gog.com
Just pings you about incoming friend requests, wishlist games being on sale

notifications-pusher.gog.com
notifications-pusher-aws.gog.com

notifies the clients about incoming messages, chat , friends coming online, thelike`

gameplay.gog.com
This is used to track achievments and playtime by the games and the client

presence.gog.com
Makes sure that you that you are seen as online by your friends by sending a keep alive every 5 minutes.

Neither of these fall into an analytics, unwanted tracking or advertising category.

ns.exitgames.com should be removed

It is required by various titles for Multiplayer to work (We were here, golf with your friends and operation tango just to name a few)

Little mistake happened in this update. Made double entries for Assassin's Creed Unity and Assassin's Creed Origins.

Will be fixed in the next update. Have to recreate existing entries anyway and existing entries are similar, so nothing interferes in the meantime.

Note: Initiates "service" in Assassin's Creed Unity is offline and i havn't mentioned it in the hosts.

Removing test.actual.battle.net makes it possible again to log into wow test realms
i guess cn-test.actual.battle.net is the counter part for asia.
Otherwise you get a connection failed error when looking for realms.

TURN and STUN Servers are vital in these days to use WebRTC based tools behind various forms of NAT and Firewalls
stun.l.google.com shouldn't be on the lists therefore

The Main Template list blocks Signal calls, I tried to diagnose the issue and found on the list only one domain which is used by Signal calls, that is stun1.l.google.com. Now, that domain is commented with a #, I assume AdAway is not picking up the fact that it is commented, but after all there's no need to keep all of those commented domains, they make the list bigger while serving no real purpose. In fact I remember using this list a few years ago and it broke Android functionalities, which I tracked down to a commented domain.

Widevine CDM to watch streaming services is loaded over dl.google.com on MediaTV boxes running Kodi.

The block lists contain several entries from lencr.org. This domain belongs to Let's Encrypt and is providing OCSP data (o.lencr.org) and Certificate Revocation Lists (c.lencr.org). In other words, this is a security provider, among others used for TLS security. Therefore, lencr.org and its subdomains should absolutely not be blocked, but instead be removed from the lists.

Gaming-Mini-Template
linking epic accounts to the Rockstar launcher block (Red Dead Redemption 2)
api.epicgames.dev

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Hello !
With commit #5f54627f943ba9859271b7e1772666379334ea3e you blocked the whole gstatic.com domain.
Isn't that way too much?
i guess without access to e.g. connectivitycheck.gstatic.com a majority of android smartphones will stop working properly.
Apart from that: thanks for your good work!
Best regards, Daniel

In Main-Template you exempt r3.o.lencr.org in the LE section but list it in org.
I think this hostname is harmless and blocking it even harmful, remove it.

Hello,

I think cdn.delight-vr.com is a false positive.
It is used to host and serve video-content

example:
https://efahrer.chip.de/news/autohaus-verrottet-seit-jahrzehnten-trotzdem-stehen-dort-noch-neuwagen_1015873

Samsung devices use this to download a gps almanach to speed up position finding locally.
This is not tracking.

crashreporting.gameforge.com -Gameforge client.
splitgate.bugsplat.com -Splitgate, bugsplat is "Crash and Error Reporting".

Subdomains of

podigee.com
podigee.net
podigee.io

are usually podcasts the user is interested in.
Sure there is a bit of analytics and advertising involved but the domains mostly serve valid content , the ads are inside the podcast audio files and the tracking analytics be done via server logs like any other website.

Hello,

some of your lists contains invalid entries.

Examples:
[i] Target: https://github.com/KodoPengin/GameIndustry-hosts-Template/blob/master/Main-Template/hosts?raw=true
[i] Target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KodoPengin/GameIndustry-hosts-Template/master/Gaming-Full-Template/hosts
Sample of non-domain entries:
- ""
- "unity-ams1-ip-holder"

[i] Target: https://hosts.gameindustry.eu/abusive-adblocking/dl/
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful
[✓] Parsed 0 exact domains and 0 ABP-style domains (ignored 97 non-domain entries)

[i] Target: https://hosts.gameindustry.eu/adobe-inc/dl/
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful
[✓] Parsed 0 exact domains and 0 ABP-style domains (ignored 9 non-domain entries)
Sample of non-domain entries:
- "�9�a^���"
- "�\d�

[i] Target: https://hosts.gameindustry.eu/amazon-com-inc/dl/
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful
[✓] Parsed 0 exact domains and 0 ABP-style domains (ignored 12 non-domain entries)
Sample of non-domain entries:
- "7z��'�"
- "@A��<�"
- "mj�Ϲ)k��y���hm�w�ۦ��zz��i�;��8�"
- "�]�dy��t�n�6w���>7��k囂��jԸ����v���0"
- "����x%���*mdd"

[i] Target: https://hosts.gameindustry.eu/ministerien-und-behoerden/dl/
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful
[✓] Parsed 0 exact domains and 0 ABP-style domains (ignored 12 non-domain entries)
Sample of non-domain entries:
- "�9�a^���"
- "��҃(��t�ݑxcr�*���1�+���ab�_万�l���6����k����_�y�q���/���>)�)�=�8��"
- "�j���mn�~x��n�$����s���)�`�hԜ�������zy?i�j�ix�9j�w����o"
- "���m�w�����"
- "]�"

[i] Target: https://hosts.gameindustry.eu/pc-full-template/dl/
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful
[✓] Parsed 0 exact domains and 0 ABP-style domains (ignored 455 non-domain entries)
Sample of non-domain entries:
- "�9�a^���"
- ">�"
- "@�}��m��"
- "�8�"
- "����k:4"

[i] Target: https://hosts.gameindustry.eu/schutz-gegen-serverangriffe/dl/
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful
[✓] Parsed 0 exact domains and 0 ABP-style domains (ignored 53 non-domain entries)
Sample of non-domain entries:
- "y���8i��"
- "j�3f���м�l��7d�"
- "�˂3���eo�k���z"
- "�n"
- "�t>�"

[i] Target: https://hosts.gameindustry.eu/staedte-und-gemeinden/dl/
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful
[✓] Parsed 0 exact domains and 0 ABP-style domains (ignored 25 non-domain entries)
Sample of non-domain entries:
- "�9�a^���"
- "u����涬�y������z���g�s;x"
- "l�eu�"
- "n��vp"
- "+f�ؖ�}�"

s3-3-w.amazonaws.com , i'd say it is the same problem as #30 , just a different hostname
it is a cname for images hosted on polarsteps.s3.amazonaws.com