![]() ![]() I nevertheless kept running DNSCrypt-proxy because of its ability to handle blocklists in a way Hosts file cannot. My story is that I’ve abandoned the ‘DNSCrypt-proxy’ which appeared to handle correctly (I mean in terms of speed) only foreign encrypted dns servers (I’m in France) which started bothering me. Concerning Acrylic, yesy I was referring to the ‘Acrylic DNS Proxy’ application. Of course if you’ve set Hostsman to modify 127.0.0.10.0.0.0 then you can set either 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 for your personal list. The Hosts file doesn’t understand *. nor avast.* when Acrylic does.Īcrylic allow much more, includes a performing cache … nice app which brings the hosts concept to what it should/could be, even if HOSTS originally was intended for speeding up dns requests not for blocking them For HostsMan local user file : a simple txt file but of course respecting the hosts standard which is, depending on your Hostsman options, Acrylic allows to write filters the hosts file would refuse, such as : I update HostsMan filters as before, then set HostsMan’s Hosts File to disabled which creates a Hosts.ehm file that I use together with home-made filters for Acrylic (Acrylic uses therefor Hostsman filters whilst the hosts file is disabled). This said, I use now HostsMan as a base for the Acrylic application. Now You: What is your take on user may include in HostsMan sources (‘Manage sources’ / ‘Add source’) a local file with ‘Select file’ : that way, when HostsMan’s filters are updated, manually or automatically, and with overwrite as you do the filters from my local file are never removed. Users who dislike the practice may want to check out alternatives such as Bleachbit. What I dislike about it is that there is no option to turn it off and that the popup is displayed frequently and not just once or on user request. I have to admit that I don't mind reminders like the one that CCleaner displays. The company added privacy options to CCleaner in 2018 which caused initial confusion as well. ![]() Avast acquired CCleaner's parent company Piriform in 2017, and servers were compromised in 2017 shortly after the acquisition. There is no telling, however, whether the popup won't be used to advertise other Avast products such as Avast antivirus products.ĬCleaner has been in the news recently quite a bit. The one downside to this is that you will have to download new versions manually to install them, at least until the July 7 deadline is reached. for example with TinyWall or Windows Firewall Control, it seems that you won't get the advertising popup. If you disallow the program to connect to the Internet. What you can do is block CCleaner's Internet access. In fact, there is no option at all to prevent this kind of behavior. There is no option in the program to disable the advertising popup. You can open the Summer Sale page directly here.ĬCleaner Professional adds features such as priority customer support, automatic cleaning, and additional cleaning options to the application. It is rather strange that Piriform/Avast would display two different upgrade offers to users of the program. There you find the offer for €12.49 instead of $14.95. The reason why there is a discrepancy is that a click on the "upgrade & save" button opens a page on the CCleaner website. On my system, it displayed a discount of €10 from €24.95 to €14.95 which is less than 50%. It offers an optional subscription ($29) that ads additional features and improved connection speeds.There you may notice that the 50% may not have been accurate. SafeIP works with all browsers and is free to use with basic features. These features are best left disabled unless you really need them. The program does a good job at faking your IP address, however the ad blocking feature only worked sporadically and using Private DNS slowed down web browsing significantly during our test. SafeIP also offers some additional features that allow you to block cookies, ads and known malware sites, as well as a DNS privacy option that will route your DNS request through private DNS servers. Choosing an IP location from a different country may slow down your connection speed but may allow you to access sites that block access from your own country. ![]() ![]() The program offers proxy servers based in the US, UK, Germany, Poland and France. SafeIP enables you to hide your real IP address by routing your Internet connection through one of several international proxy servers. ![]()
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