Block telemetry by regex?

[Guldhammer]

can telemetry be blocked with regex, and how?

[Redback]

@Guldhammer

telemetry

^(.+[.-]+)?telemetry[.-]

Hope this helps

[Guldhammer]

Thank you.

can i use that with analytics also?
^(.+[.-]+)?analytics[ .-]

[CallMeCurious]

Just remember that not all telemetry services will be have "telemtery" in the domain or "analytics" for that matter.

[Redback]

True, as well as one must also limit the regex to avoid going too far, it will be the same for any regex, variance is best.

These regexes have been tested against a 150mb TXT of blocked domain, not just the US, but from around the world.

^(.+[.-]+)?doubleclick(s)?(-|..+)$
^ad([sxv]?[0-9]*|system)_.-{1,}|[.-]ad([sxv]?[0-9]|system)[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?adse?rv(er?|ice)?s?[0-9][.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?adserver([0-9]+)?[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?advertis(ing|ercontent)[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?analysis[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?analytic(s)?[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?(s)?metric(s)?[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?(s)?omniture[_.-]
^(.*.)?2o7.net$

[Guldhammer]

@Redback

^(.+[.-]+)?doubleclick(s)?(-|..+)$
^ad([sxv]?[0-9]|system).-{1,}|[.-]ad([sxv]?[0-9]|system)[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?adse?rv(er?|ice)?s?[0-9][.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?adserver([0-9]+)?[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?advertis(ing|ercontent)[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?analysis[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?analytic(s)?[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?(s)?metric(s)?[.-]
^(.+[.-]+)?(s)?omniture[.-]
^(..)?2o7.net$

Thank You.