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#Suspicious Domains In DNS Queries Logs
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What device?
Well if you want to be completely sure do a phone reset
And start from scratch
Backup only pictures and videos
Everything else is not mandatory to backup
What account does a phone need?
Or is this an android pad?
I usually just remove everything Samsung off the phone bloatware I call it
Can you access those accounts on the pc?
As in user + pw? Then you’re good to reset
Never hurts to reset just takes time.
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This all looks fine. Mostly a combination of software development & news sites. Pretty standard sources from which apps/programs fetch data
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I'm not personally monitoring queries from my devices, but I am an iOS developer, so I'm familiar with how apps fetch from APIs in the background. None of these feel like red flags to me.
I would say none of these sites are worth blocking, and a few may break functionality if blocked (especially python & mozilla)
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No it’s very minimal data usage and would block functionality and or break apps
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Yeah that makes sense
Personally, I think you're overthinking this to an extreme degree
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News apps gather from different websites together
They pull from multiple sources and show it in one app
Nothing weird
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Apps & programs draw from a myriad of APIs that are not apparent to the user, it's essential
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do you know what dns is?
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Not all API fetches are going to surface into the UI
Most won't
They could be fetching backend packages or news aggregators, or fetching a larger list of articles & only presenting ones it deems relevant to you. Which, honestly, is a much better system since the content recommendation is done locally
Or, better idea - Stop worrying about it, because they're harmless
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Dns is just an adress which couples to a different server. And news apps use those addresses to gather news from multiple servers. It helps translate a http://some website.org to an ip adress .
If you want a good dns blocker go get an raspberry pi or install a pi hole 🕳️ they have some list which already filtered out the ads
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If you spend all your time trying to validate every single endpoint your devices are querying - You're going to have no time left to actually use your device
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They're not suspicious, though
vapid tartan
Bros just scared of nothing
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Bros just scared of nothing
Its okay he tries to learn 👍
vapid tartan
But lots of people do that try and find a problem to solve and end up making lots of work
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https://github.com/ecosia
They provide lots of internal SDKs, you have an app that's probably interfacing with one of their APIs
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In general stick to an Adblock list, which somebody made already and leave the rest free
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https://archive.kernel.org/oldlinux/htmldocs/kernel-api/
Kernel.org has an API that provides packages and SDKs that apps use for all kinds of functionality
You shouldn't block any of these sites, because none of them are suspicious. You are overthinking this, my friend
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Yes why block it? did you check those websites one by one what they did? And what sort of website it is?
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Just because you don't recognize it doesn't mean it's suspicious, it just means you don't know what it is
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That message contained a weird word in it ltt filtering 
Cambridge probably because of news about cambridge
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Likely a combination of SDKs provided by their computer science departments, or part of a news aggregator
If you spend all your time trying to validate every single endpoint your devices are querying - You're going to have no time left to actually use your device
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Cambridge is a college in UK and a town
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https://dictionary-api.cambridge.org/
Cambridge has a dictionary API, your phone is probably pinging it during its spellcheck process
There may be another app with its own internal spellcheck, perhaps not for your active typing/messaging
Again, nothing suspicious here, you're overthinking this
Doesn't matter dude, don't worry about it
If you spend all your time trying to validate every single endpoint your devices are querying - You're going to have no time left to actually use your device
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Nite there are thousands of websites and apps which need access to work
Everything is files
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Who cares?
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That's up to you homie
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Do you live in montreal?
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My advice is stop worrying about what to block and not block
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Ok 👍🏻
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The tldr i'm going to give you, is a lot of this will also come from google news and samsung news queries.. Alongside any ads, etc.. all of it is pretty normal and you're heavily overthinking it
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Nothing to worry about
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You already scanned the links before you even posted here, and they all came back clean yeah? Problem solved
If you spend all your time trying to validate every single endpoint your devices are querying - You're going to have no time left to actually use your device
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Go visit the links? It will show
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That's up to you homie
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Might be the best for you
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I would recommend becoming a software developer & understanding how apps interact with web APIs before worrying more about this
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A Java developer and a mobile developer together tell you not to worry about it.
🤷♂️
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No
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No
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It was mostly a joke
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Oh