Re: proposal for more options in gnu/services/networking.scm for blocklist

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nils Gillmann <address@hidden> skribis:

> A first version for google I just came up with starts like the attached
> code.
>
> What do you think?

I would use it!  (Although I use Tor + Privoxy for most of my web
browsing, so I would also need the black list there.)

The only downside I see it having to maintain it.  Do you know if anyone
maintains a list of these hosts somewhere?  If yes, we should put the
URL as a comment and have a somewhat streamlined process to update the
list.

If there’s no publicly-maintained list of hosts, I think we won’t go
beyond Google, because that would easily become unmaintained, and people
would be disappointed to get an incomplete/outdated host list.

What do people think?

> PS: For consistency with code and mailinglist I will use my legal name
> now (etc, long reasoning and positions and pro/contra could follow but I
> won't do this here)

Your call!

> (define %ads-google-host-aliases
>   ;; This is a list of known google services excluding google.com

[...]

> 127.0.0.1 mimageads*.googleadservices.com
> 127.0.0.1 mpartner.googleadservices.com
> 127.0.0.1 pagead*.googlesyndication.com

Wildcards are not permitted here.

> fe80::1%lo0affiliate.googleusercontent.com

Missing space.

> fe80::1%lo0 mimageads*.googleadservices.com
> fe80::1%lo0 mpartner.googleadservices.com
> fe80::1%lo0 pagead*.googlesyndication.com

Wildcards.

Would you like to turn this into a patch?  See
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html>
(not everything is applicable here, though.)

Note that the manual also needs to be updated;
‘%ads-google-host-aliases’ can be documented just below
‘%facebook-host-aliases’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.