[ALERT] AOL users beware!!

No idea why anyone would still be using AOL, but for those that are, perhaps a good reason to finally move?

US telco giant Verizon has given notice it will be providing information on its subscribers to AOL for targeted advertising.

A notice in Verizon's privacy policy warns users that beginning next month, information such as device information, addresses and whereabouts, and browsing habits, will be given to AOL so it can sling relevant ads at netizens.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/07/verizon_owns_aol_and_your_slurped_data/

hpHosts: Updated 21st August 2015

The hpHOSTS Hosts file has been updated. There is now a total of 357,347 listed hostsnames.

If you are NOT using the installer, please read the included Readme.txt file for installation instructions. Enjoy! :)

1. Latest Updated: 21/08/2015
   
2. Last Verified: 21/08/2015

Download hpHosts now!
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

Enjoy!

hpHosts: Competition now closed

Seems no-one wanted to enter the latest competition, not sure why (noticed how messy the code was maybe?).

Decided I'm going to drop the competitions for now.

Radix - at least have it working!!

You'd have thought they'd have spotted this prior to publishing the Whois Access Policy and making it public, but apparently not ...

Hint Radix, if you're going to be operating a registry at least gets the basics right!

hpHosts Competition: Deadline tomorrow

Just a final note folks - the deadline for the latest competition is tomorrow. If you've got something and haven't submitted it yet, you've got a little over 24 hours to do so (competition closes midnight (GMT London) tomorrow):

http://forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&p=20493