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Be aware that this blocks Google Analytics and similar services. IMO it's a really bad idea to encourage users to block these services. For example, they are used by pretty much every software company to IMPROVE the product, and if they can't get data on what people use the most in their product, it may not get the attention it needs.

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The reality is that so few people will actually install a hosts file like this, that it's not going to make an appreciable difference in any statistics.

That is true, but it still conflicts with the purpose of this file, which is to "Make the internet suck less", while it instead, in the long term, may make the internet suck more. I don't see how blocking them makes it sucks less anyhow?

I would imagine it could put a significant dent in the already very small percentage of people using linux. Thus under representing it even further. Not that I'm too worried about it though.

edit: Looking through the current version of the host file, it appears google analytics and some other "non-nefarious" tracking sites are commented out.

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