False Positives found

[KnightTim]

I have been using the list for a little bit, I like the idea and it seems like a pretty solid block list but I have run into a few false positives in the last couple days.

ci4.googleusercontent.com
ci5.googleusercontent.com
ogs.google.com
online.jimmyjohns.com
vortex.accuweather.com

The first 3 are related to showing images in emails on gmail.
The 4th is a website for ordering food.
The 5th is for displaying rader/maps in the accuweather app

[KnightTim]

I have found 2 more domains.

www.travelocity.com
www.orbitz.com

They are websites for booking travel.

[mkb2091]

I've added all those domains to the whitelist, thanks for reporting them

[KnightTim]

Found a major false positive.

www.amazon.com

[mkb2091]

Sorry about that. I've added it to the whitelist, so it should not be blocked now. An IP address(72.21.211.176) which according to passive dns( https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/72.21.211.176/relations ) used to be for amazon got into a blocklist. It seems like the IP is no longer used for www.amazon.com, which suggests that there is a bug in the code, since the code is meant to check if domains returns via passive dns are still go to the target IP address. I'll fix the code soon, but for now, just whitelisting the domain should be enough

[KnightTim]

I think I may have found an issue and may have figured out why www.amazon.com was blocked, or I have another theory.

I noticed several more sites blocked:
www.go.com www.skyrock.com www.ask.com www.conduit.com www.vmn.net www.tagged.com www.ku6.com www.soso.com

All of them have the www. at the start but the base domain of go.com isn't blocked, but other subdomains are.
So my guess is the logic currently checks if *.go.com is blocked but www.go.com is not in the list add it. I think what it should check is, if go.com is not blocked do not add www.go.com

Does that make sense? And do you agree?
Also if you want I can close this issue and open a new one for this comment.

[mkb2091]

For go.com, it isn't blocked because go.com was added to a whitelist I use, but www.go.com wasn't. I'll change it so for any domain, if domain.com is whitelisted, so will www.domain.com

[mkb2091]

The current version does not contain www.skyrock.com, www.tagged.com(nor tagged.com), www.ku6.com(but does block ku6.com, through some version of dbl.oisd.nl does), www.soso.com(nor soso.com, also blocked by some version of dbl.oisd.nl)

[mkb2091]

Thanks, changing the whitelisting to also whitelist www.example.com even if only example.com is whitelisted seemed to of removed 136 false positives

[KnightTim]

Found 4 more domains, I had to unblock them to get the Windows Store to work on Win8.1

next-services.apps.microsoft.com
wscont.apps.microsoft.com
wscont1.apps.microsoft.com
wscont2.apps.microsoft.com

[KnightTim]

Found another: i.ibb.co
It is used for the image hosting service https://imgbb.com/

[KnightTim]

Found few more false positives

lowendbox.com
completion.amazon.com
links.mint.com
web.tresorit.com

[mkb2091]

I couldn't find anything that links.mint.com actually broke on the website, so I can't tell if its actually needed, would you mind saying what it breaks?

[KnightTim]

links.mint.com breaks the ability to click on links in the mint emails.

[mkb2091]

OK, thanks for explaining what it breaks. I've whitelisted it, and also reported it to the upstream list

[gadkarisid]

False positive for domains including "adafruit." It's a legit online retailer.

[KnightTim]

Found a "major" false positive

inbox.google.com

It prevents the Gmail app from updating and giving notifications.

[mkb2091]

That was fixed in #103, but I'll add it to the whitelist to be safe for the future in case another list adds it

[cusco]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct way to report, or didn't find the reason why its listed.
Seems to me that c.paypal.com stops me from using paypal checkout functionality on some websites.

[mkb2091]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct way to report, or didn't find the reason why its listed. Seems to me that c.paypal.com stops me from using paypal checkout functionality on some websites.

Yeah this is a fine way to report it, thanks for doing so. c.paypal.com is blocked because https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hermanjustinm/Herms-Blacklist/master/HermsAdBlacklist.txt and https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jerryn70/GoodbyeAds/master/Hosts/GoodbyeAds.txt both block it. I've removed

[M0lyk]

Hi, I think this is a false positive :
majax31isnotdown. blogspot.com/

Thank you

[mkb2091]

@M0lyk it is in the list because it is in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blocklistproject/Lists/master/malware.txt, which is a list for malware. The site appears to be distributing patched software, so I'm not surprised it got marked as malware as it very well could be

[MoralCode]

secure.bannerbank.com is a false positive (Match found in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkb2091/blockconvert/master/output/domains.txt)

also www.bannerbank.com