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Comment by beauHD | Hacker News Reader

> crash dumps being sent

Crash dumps can contain highly sensitive info. I have blocked Crashlytics[0] and Sentry with my pi-hole so nothing gets sent. I'm starting to believe these tools are abused and not even used to improve services. They're basically a MITM so people can violate other's privacy.

[0] https://firebase.google.com/products/crashlytics

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Can the same be done with hosts file (block crashlytics/sentry?) for those of us unable to use pi-holes at work?

edit: it looks like it is working, but unknown if there are any negative side-effects at this point.

    └─[$] <> ping sentry.io
    PING sentry.io (0.0.0.0): 56 data bytes
    ping: sendto: Socket is not connected
    ping: sendto: Socket is not connected
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
    ^C
    --- sentry.io ping statistics ---
    2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

You can block the root, but usually the domain contains random (unique) strings as a subdomain, so you need to wildcard block it, which pi-hole supports.

Thanks. Bummer, I figured they probably didn't use the root domain but some amalgamation of letters/number/sub-domains. I have a pi-hole at home which has been working great for 3+ years now, but I mostly run objective-see stuff on my work machine.

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