This domain is used in many apps to track your were about https://mypdns.org/my-privacy-dns/matrix/-/issues/967390

This won't actually help.

It must be added to Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/whitelist - too

This won't actually help.

Then why did you merge it, and why do you suggest to whitelist a well know in app tracker?

Because I'm in control and I know that this won't do anything for the time being. In fact, it was whitelisted for less than 1h before our automation recollected all datasets.

Actually, by blocking the main page you are also blocking those who are using them for threat analytic. For example, I work I do a lot of threat analytic and ip-api.com (the main domain) is a trustworthy source to get information about an IP.

Let's be fair about the tracking thing. Since when is your public IP private ? That's probably the reason behind the usage of VPN/Proxy and other methods. You only hide your real location. But a public IP will still be used for the communication and traffic.

I'm sure most of us have access log with no anonymised IP address stored in it. Since GPDR, it's a blackbox, but it's still a thing for private blog or project websites. So we all know that our public IP will leave trace somewhere.

What their service can do is literally to put an org/isp name to an IP. I do understand that there is fear around privacy but it's still a helpful site for threat analytic. Alone the last 2 weeks I used that thing to get information about the physical location of threats against dozen of servers...

I totally agree with @funilrys - the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. 👍🏻

It must be added to Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/whitelist - too

Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/whitelist#184 😁