Reply to post: any ideas on blocking cloud hosted scourge?

AccuWeather: Our app slurped your phone's location via Wi-Fi but we like totally didn't use it

joed

any ideas on blocking cloud hosted scourge?

I was going to - just in case - set up another dead ended route for revealmobile.com. But it turned out that dns query returns an non-compliant IP withing the range of google-cloud. I've blocked a swath but the solution is just more of a heavy-handed stop gap (and useless anytime something moved inside the cloud). Any better ways that can be used on consumer router?

The market would definitely use some easy fix as MS, Google, FB and other tracking scum likes to hide behind live shield of their cloudy services that makes filtering impossible (without inflicting collateral damage).

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