i would have thought it was the keyboard.

that was the only peripheral that had any option to escape.

in this part of the world, we are blessed with stray dogs who are also protected by our supreme court. it’s quite literally against the law, for example, to prohibit the feeding of strays by animal lovers.

i once saw one of them shudder and whine at the sound of fireworks. its tail scrunched under and it pissed itself in fear and confusion. its plaintive moans were drowned out by the incessant blasts of the “mala” crackers (a literal garland of 10,000 or so crackers strung out in sequence that goes on bursting for an hour or so). the poor thing just did not know what was happening and it became a shivering ball of anxiety until the blasts stopped.

anyone who sees an innocent animal suffer like that will never, ever, want to light a firecracker again.

but what is the basis of sorting here? i guess maybe the popularity of options as chosen in the past?

I’m a mirror. if you’re nice to me, I’m nice to you. if not, well…

i am ashamed to say that i have driven when drunk. this was over a decade ago and i don’t remember the 13km trip taken late at night.

i am thankful that the car was found intact on inspection the next morning and i hadn’t hit anybody.

but that was the last time i drove drunk. i was a prize idiot to do so–as is anyone else who does so.

we’ve found the early bird.

it happens when the guy I don’t like does crimes.

you do realise that’s the exact idea used by every fascist from Mao to Mussolini to Modi, right?

who determines that actions taken are crimes? should there not be due process that measures them against the law before such a distinction–such a judgement, one may say–is made?

or should anyone be able to point a finger willy-nilly at anyone else claiming them to be a criminal and to start doling out the lynchrope?

and who determines the “sometimes” when it is “justified”? does that happen only when it is done against the guy you don’t like?

“the current leader needs to stop fascist activities by behaving exactly like a fascist!”

i put this question to my cat while parading naked in front of it.

i got no response other than a look of utter disdain.

all good info. and all agreed. but the issue in this post isn’t the vpn functionality.

it’s what the adguard android app does in the background when the vpn, itself, is disconnected. that’s when these rogue requests were sent.

this is a possibility. one that i haven’t accounted for.

but is there any literature that verifies this? the closest I’ve found in context is this page, and I’m not able to resolve what you’re saying with whats on there: https://adguard.com/kb/general/ad-filtering/filter-policy/

i don’t have enough info yet to update the post with this conjecture.

the vpn wasn’t connected at the time these requests were sent. that’s how DDG captures these requests, by using the vpn slot itself. these requasts were sent by the adguard app in the background when it was deactivated.

the data sent to third-party ttrackers had nothing to do with the vpn functionality or of other apps funneling their data through it.

this observation has also been corroborated by another user using other means elsewhere in the comments. do give it a dekko, too.

yes, that’s my question too.

i get what you’re saying, but the vpn was inactive when the app sent these requests. DDG was active at the time and using the VPN slot.

so it isn’t the vpn functionality, per se, of the app that’s doing anything here.

i get what you’re saying, but the vpn was inactive when the app sent these requests. DDG was active at the time and using the VPN slot.

so it isn’t the vpn functionality, per se, of the app that’s doing anything here.

i can see where you’re going with this but, no, these are not sites that i’ve visited. for example, my country has its own amazon domain and verizon does not operate where i live.

nope, this is all the adguard vpn android app on its own.

thanks for the feedback. i would be happy to hear what I’m presuming incorrectly here. always willing to learn and gain an understanding of how things do work.

wow. this is good detail, indeed!

so is this an app one should avoid using, then?

i dont know why it’sa at such a low resolution here. it’s fine on my phone.

here, ill try uploading a fresh non-stretched single-screen screenshot to see if the size was the issue.

(i don’t know how it will turn out myself until after i post it.)