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Jul 7, 2023: Over the past few months I was in the process of doing a major overhaul to my long defunct IP blocklists and was planning on getting them up to date and offering them again. I was just about done finalizing things when this happened. And then thishappened. Now the state of p2p is pretty much a complete shitshow, and Mullvad's tomfoolery has now caused a whole cascade of VPNs either shutting down port forwarding or shutting down their services entirely, so what is left of the public torrenting scene is a fractured mess of low seeded/dead torrents.

I still plan on posting my updated lists, but I doubt I will have the motivation to keep them maintained going forward, as I have mostly moved on to private trackers where there is little use for blocklists.

I cannot emphasize enough how much damage Mullvad VPN's hair brained decision to get rid of port forwarding has done to the p2p file sharing community, and to the internet in general. If you are still using Mullvad VPN, you should discontinue doing so immediately, as they are not true to their principles and have revealed themselves to be shady actors with a complete lack of regard for their users and a complete lack of dedication to their supposed cause.

If anyone at Mullvad VPN is reading this, just know that you have played right into the hands of those who are spending billions in lobbying funds to corruptly transform the free and open internet into a closed off, curated wasteland of corporate control. I hope it was worth it, you unconscious fools. As a once loyal user of Mullvad for more than 5 years, who recommended tons of people to their services, never in my wildest dreams did I think it would come to this.


Jun 5, 2022: Yeah, I'm still alive (as if anyone actually gives a fuck.) Just wanted to clean up some of the old shit on here that is no longer maintained. Note that if for some reason you're STILL using my Microsoft Hosts blocklist, it hasn't been maintained since 2015, and I have no plans to resume doing so, as I am totally done with Windows and have almost nothing whatsoever to do with that monstrous OS anymore. If for some reason you still want it, you can get it here: https://www.angelfire.com/comics2/fatboy9175/MShosts.txt

Note that blocking M$-related domains by host file in windows 10 or later is no longer effective anyway, since Windows has a baked-in whitelist inside dnsapi.dll that will override MANY (if not all) user rules that contain Microsoft's sacred domains. If you try to add anything that ends in microsoft.com, for instance, there is a good chance it will silently fail. So if you value your privacy and want to actually control your own damn computer, do yourself a favor and ditch that piece of shit OS all together. I recommend Linux Mint.


Old shit from 2016 or earlier below:


Windows 7 updates to NEVER install
Recently M$ has even attempted to sabotage Windows 7 users by issuing a number of "important" updates that add all kinds of tracking spyware and change your system files for the sole purpose of "preparing" your system for Windows 10. If you made the wise choise of sticking with Windows 7, you obviously won't want any of this rubbish on your system. So, I give you my list of Windows updates to NEVER install:

KB2952664 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10 (sends a bunch of telemetry data to M$, reported to corrupt system files besides)
KB2976978 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10
KB2977759 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10 (sends a bunch of telemetry data to M$)
KB2990214 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10
KB3014460 - affects windows 8 only
KB3021917 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10
KB3022345 - installs diagnostic tracking service, reported to corrupt system files
KB3035583 - pitches the free Windows 10 upgrade (Gwxux.exe - Get Windows X -10- exe) - Malware by most definitions
KB3044374 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10
KB3050265 - supposedly fixes an issue with windows update, but also changes system files to support upgrade to Windows 10
KB3050267 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10
KB3065987 - makes "improvements" to the windows update client (probably just more Win10 bullshit)
KB3068708 - installs telemetry service, prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10
KB3075249 - adds more damn telemetry
KB3075851 - makes "improvements" to the windows update client (probably just more Win10 bullshit)
KB3080149 - adds more damn telemetry
KB2999226 - run-time environment for Windows 10 store apps. Massive bloatware
KB3083324 - yet another "improvement" for the Windows update client. Like we haven't heard that before.
KB3083325 - yet another "improvement" for the Windows update client (windows 8 only)
KB3083710 - prerequisite for Windows 10 upgrade that is being foisted on Windows 7 users.
KB3083711 - yet another "improvement" for the Windows update client (windows 8 only)
KB3102810 - yet another "improvement" for the Windows update client. Like we haven't heard that before.
KB3112343 - makes changes to prepare for upgrade to Windows 10.
KB3123862 - Yet more Windows 10 nagware.
KB3135445 - Yet another "improvement" for the Windows update client.
KB3138612 - Yet another "improvement" for the Windows update client.
KB3139929 - Windows 10 nagware disguised as a "security" update. Even I didn't expect M$ to stoop this low.
KB3146449 - Windows 10 nagware disguised as a "security" update. Even I didn't expect M$ to stoop this low.
KB3150513 - prepares system for upgrade to Windows 10


If you've already got any of these on your system and want a quick, easy way to remove them, this guy wrote a simple batch script to instantly remove the offending updates: https://blockwindows.wordpress.com/
Note that Micro$haft is attempting to censor his script from the web, and even deleted his Github page twice!! If that doesn't tell you EVERYTHING you need to know about the current state of M$, and why you should NOT trust any of their new products, I don't know what does.



uTorrent / Bittorrent, Inc hosts file blocklist
Fed up with how crappy and bloated uTorrent has become? If you're like me and still using uTorrent 2.2.1, you probably HATE how the program is always trying to sneak updates through behind your back, no matter how many times you tell it not to. Well, use this list and kiss all that trouble goodbye. The list also blocks all the ads and tracking servers used by the new versions.

https://www.angelfire.com/comics2/fatboy9175/uthosts.txt

I should also mention, you can get the last good version of uTorrent from this wonderful place called OldApps.com: http://www.oldapps.com/utorrent.php?old_utorrent=8134

This is the last bloat-free, ad-free release, and is supported by virtually all private tracker communities. Simply put, all the 3.x versions of uTorrent suck big moose balls. Use anything below 3.0 and you're good to go.


   

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