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Will blocking them at the HOSTS file level decrease exposure as well? My gut says yes, but I wanted to check.

Also, does this test check for that and/or give points for that?

Here is the HOSTS file I use to block ads: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt

If you're on Linux i recommend 'Hosts-Update'[1], it's a bash script that generates a Host file from multiple sources:

http://adaway.org/hosts.txt http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt http://malwaredomains.lehigh.edu/files/justdomains http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt

[1]: https://github.com/zant95/hosts-update

Yes, our test does work for that and various hosts-based blockers are supported (like AdAway for Android, for example). In order for our test to give accurate results, the host-based blocker has to add our simulated trackers to its block list, which some lists may not have done yet.

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