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		retox on March 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blocklist Facebook domains I wonder what their rational for this is. I know in the past malware have modified the hosts file to block malware removal tool domains but why ignore entries for Facebook? I heard that blackholing requests to Microsoft telemetry URLs also has no effect. Any way of finding the unlockable list I wonder.

ReverseCold on March 21, 2018 [–]

> why ignore entries for Facebook?

Malware would redirect facebook.com to some scam site probably.

Given how popular FB is, Microsoft decided to "fix" this.

(This is all a hypothetical, I don't actually know this for sure.)

Skunkleton on March 21, 2018 | [–]

I mean, considering the use of 99.9% of Windows PCs out there it probably make sense.

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