Request to add a new Web Content Filtering category of Analytics

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shuckie69

March 16, 2019 21:49

Hello

Your Customer Support Engineer Brett Parnell advised me to post this idea here.

I would be grateful if you could please add a new category of “Analytics” which could be populated with domains such crashlytics, appsflyer, kochava and flurry (amongst others). The reason for making this request is because I personally object to the idea of my various devices phoning home to these companies, plus specific Microsoft telemetry domains, without my knowledge or consent. I have tried adding as many analytics/telemetry-related domains to my blacklist as possible, but despite upgrading my account to allow me to block more domains, I have reached the blacklist limit and am unable to block some more domains I have recently discovered.

I genuinely believe that there are other OpenDNS users who would also like to have the option of blocking analytics-related domains if it were possible to do so. I would be more than happy to nominate the various domains I have identified for inclusion in the new category if it were created, and I imagine other users would also nominate relevant domains of which they are aware. We would then be able to use our blacklists to block domains which don’t fall under a specific category.

Thank you for taking the time to read this message. Please don’t hesitate to contact me should you require any further clarification. I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Kind regards,

Michael

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  rotblitz March 17, 2019 16:38

  Good idea, but you didn't vote up your idea.  Votes is all which count.

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  shuckie69 March 17, 2019 17:50

  Hi rotblitz

  Many thanks for the tip, most appreciated! 👍

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  rotblitz March 17, 2019 18:27

  Yes, but you still didn’t vote up your idea. I see just one vote, and that’s mine.

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  shuckie69 March 17, 2019 18:31

  Whoops, didn’t click correctly! Hopefully voted now. 🤞

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  rotblitz March 18, 2019 08:34

  You did!

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  niallq August 29, 2019 13:04

  A generic category for all Analytics is a great idea. GDPR rules can be respected at the same time so the unwary / uninformed are not subject to profile building they didn't consent to.

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  shuckie69 April 07, 2020 11:51

  It looks like I've had 18 votes at the time of writing.  Is that enough for this suggestion to be considered or is there a minimum threshold which is higher than 18?

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  rotblitz April 07, 2020 15:49 (Edited April 07, 2020 15:51)

  Nobody of us users can know this, but I have seen other ideas with hundreds of votes without ever having been considered.  On the other hand, they seem to have more than 80 millions of users, so a few hundred is really nothing.

  See https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/201090987-OpenDNS-Community-Idea-Bank?sort_by=votes

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  shuckie69 April 07, 2020 18:31

  Thanks, rotblitz! :-)

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