stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

I already made a top level reply, but I’m with the devs on this one. If you are using a tracker that allows release spam with malware, it would be counterproductive and honestly irresponsible to start playing whack a mole with it. Your software, development process and people aren’t prepared to do anti malware. Just tell your users that they’re using bad trackers and they need to switch.

Because that’s what’s happening. The arj files are malware. If someone asked me to install a water filtering system on their cars gas lines so they could use fuel from the cheap gas station I’d tell them the same thing: don’t use that gas station, they put water in the gas. Go across the street to the market rate one.

Furthermore, providing a way to filter those files just means that bad trackers that allow release spam malware will not be abandoned and the problem of that malware will get worse.

Literally get on better trackers for the sake of your own privacy, security and cpu cycles.

It sucks to say this but you need to ditch that tracker.

Those files are malware. Yes it would be great if there were some mechanism to block that specific malware (there is, use your computers anti malware) but the long term fix is to go away from where they’re distributing malware.

The whole point of distributing files like that is that people like you have automated systems that go to public trackers and grab the first thing they see that matches and extract it. .arj files can have a link in them to some payload and suddenly your wonderful home server has infected itself with malware.

Time to switch to private trackers.

You can’t use the cell network and preserve your anonymity without committing identity theft or fraud crimes or without someone else willingly laundering sims with you.

It’s almost always better to treat your phone and cell network usage as not anonymous unless you only need to do a few specific things.

Some minuscule portion of individual users may do so.

Organizations will implement eurodns as best practice for regulatory compliance. Providers will do so as well.

Almost every internet device uses whatever dhcp gives them as dns. When all the companies, government bodies and providers use eurodns to be compliant with the regulatory frameworks that allow them to continue operating in the eu that change will trickle down to users automatically.

It’s also worth remembering that surveillance is extremely normalized in the eu and eurozone compared to many other nations and areas. Of the vanishingly small percentage of users who are both aware of the concept of dns and choose to change it, a portion of them will accept and use eurodns.

Again, you may think I’m wrong but give it a few years.

For now.

The whole stated point of this action is to make sure there is a dns provider who is required to be compliant with eu law.

Then entities who have a requirement to be compliant with some recordkeeping or framework of eu law (surprise, it’s all of them!) must use it.

Oh look here, because you ended up using eurodns for gdpr compliance you’re also required to turn over all records upon a lawful inquiry!

It just so happens that dns requests meet the minimum requirements for further search and surveillance, how lucky for me! Who could have ever expected this?

It’s easy to dismiss what I’m saying because it’s not happening at this very moment, but give it a few years and we’ll see liberals bemoaning the suffering of freedom loving peoples languishing under the great Eurovision firewall.

Nah the whole point of the Russian federation copying China, five eyes nations getting butthurt about ech/doh and ultimately this European dns system that ensures name resolution is compliant with euro regulation is to preserve national interests in a multipolar world on the stage of the global internet.

You don’t gotta worry about icann or anybody else if you control the way the internet works for your citizens.

Hell yeah. Balkanize the internet more!

This sounds like news but it is not. It is also not unique to apple. If you use push notifications on any platform you’re susceptible to this.

Push notifications are often unencrypted beacons that are used by cops to corroborate surveillance between devices even when the content transferred between devices isn’t available or incriminating.

It’s the old “you say you weren’t involved but call records indicate you communicated with the suspect despite being in another county at the time of the crime” but updated to digital. When cops want cause for a warrant or some kind of wiretap they use push notifications to establish it.

If you’re doing crimes or whatever, turn off push notifications. They can be used to establish that you communicated with someone or that you were in a specific area.

Again, this is not unique to apple devices.

If every private tracker required a 1:1 ratio and didn’t offer any points scheme to boost ratio then you’d have a great point.

In my experience there are no trackers with both a 1:1 ratio requirement and no points scheme.

Get in, the waters fine.

I have and use both.

Without choosing some sort of dns based ip blacklist (offered by both providers btw), neither one really does what you asked about.

What are you actually trying to prevent? If you don’t know what language to use, just describe the situation.