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www.uptimerobot.com uptimerobot.com
Not a malicious domain; I believe it may be a false positive
It is a website heartbeat monitor
Thanks!

Blocking this domain prevents streaming of news videos on The Guardian eg. https://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2020/apr/14/great-lockdown-recession-great-depression-coronavirus-imf-video

Describe the bug
Website is blocked

Expected behavior
Website should not be blocked

Additional context
This domain is for logging into Office 365

Seems to be a false positive, as it restricts downloads of Huawei apps in the Google Play Store.

This domain is for signing up for an account with AndroidCentral

Its just a Microsoft/Windows login domain.
Not spyware and not malicious.

Invalid domain in blocklist: "delivery.swid.switchadhub.com
It has a " (double quotes)

learn.adafruit.com www.adafruit.com adafruit.com
This domain is a false positive- it is for learning and shopping for Raspberry Pi
Not malicious :)
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Hi, you are blocking the following domains:

accounts.us1.gigya.com
socialize.us1.gigya.com
fidm.us1.gigya.com

These domains break logging into iRobot app on Android, and starting iRoomba vacuum from Google Home

Hi,
I believe this may be a false positive.
They create Apache webplugins that can do geolocation but I do not believe this subdomain does any tracking

Hello,
I believe the following domain may be a FP:
gumroad.com

This is a platform for creators to sell and host downloadable content

Blocking this domain prevents from unsubscribing from Mailerlite emails

I believe this is a false positive.
These are used for doing research about an IP address. It helps YOU track an IP. It does not track you.

false positive
CDN (content delivery network) for adafruit. a raspberry pi accessories online store

edgekey.net is a domain that is owned and used by Akamai that is primarily used for website acceleration through the Akamai CDN. Content Delivery Network (CDN) (About DefBoxes) Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) put website content on servers that are spread throughout the world.

I found a few sites that are blocked in the hosts file, but they are both valid first-party domains that users might want to visit, so I believe they are false positives:
yoast.com
www.yoast.com
alexa.com
www.alexa.com
entireweb.com
www.entireweb.com

virustotalcloud.appspot.com - is needed for virustotal desktop file upload

Blocking this broke certain UI images on Ycharts.com for me on mobile

Blocking this domain is just a URL shortener to the play store. I do not believe it is malicious.

https://koho.onelink.me/Iw0N/4de1b7bd
redirects to
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.koho&hl=en_CA&shortlink=4de1b7bd&pid=Website&c=website-google&af_click_lookback=1h

Officially giving up on this list - Seems to be abandoned.
@DataMaster-2501

This domain is required for embedded videos on some sites
Eg. purposeinvest.com/canadians uses this for embedded videos.

kaspersky.com and www.kaspersky.com are both blocked, and are actually an anti-virus website

false positive
a free encyclopedia of events that show up in all sorts of audit logs

This domain is needed for search in Patreon mobile app
@DataMaster-2501

This is job advertising softwarefor finding jobs through sites such as ziprecruiter
I believe this is a false positive
@DataMaster-2501

Please unblock images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com

This false positive breaks embedded videos on any platform hosted by Wistia.
I am experiencing blocks with this domain on stackskills.com which hosts their videos and their thumbnails on Wistia

Blocking this domain breaks logging into Facebook Messenger on mobile.

Hi, I believe this domain is a false positive. This is just a blog. Not a malicious domain.