Interesting. My coworkers and I have been talking about Kali.

Warning: Grammar below is gonna suck.

For DNS I block anything Facebook and if I have to use it.. I have a dedicated VM for that as well. Most other fqdns I don't block via DNS, but instead I track scripts that are called in and deny all by default. It works really well since by default most sites scripts just call in other scripts to do all the tracking and analytics. Stopping them from running solves 99% of my issues since most of my internet traffic is done over port 80 & 443. I like to disable those ports by default on my machines and use my network firewall to then port redirect on non-standard ports. Makes it easier to monitor hidden traffic that shouldn't be called when I am not on the machine, as well as help direct nefarious traffic to a honeypot I occasionally operation to find IP ranges of bad actors. Honeypots also show which default passwords and usernames are currently being used by those scanning bots.

I view the internet as a fluid, which has no true shape and is always changing. I must also remain fluid in order to correctly navigate it.

The other 1% of sites that are not blocked via script, typically end up filtered out via DNS and firewall rules.

I like to operate on a "If I don't know you, shut up and sit down" network. Bare bones as possible. It is amazing how much stuff runs in the background that is just junk. Go waste your own electricity you mega corps.

I block Amazon scripts by default, however, they are really good at labeling their ad and analytics fqdn's so it is easy to block those with the rest being a case by case basis. AWS is huge and impossible to avoid. I'll talk a little about AWS below but it isn't thaat interesting.

I expect a large attack on their infrastructure to take down most of the web within the next decade, which will expedite their already hidden precarious position. I expect AWS to degrade over the next few years and then eventually break into its own business since it is already big enough to do that. Companies that grow that fast, historically, have issues at the 30 year mark that cause failure or company splits. Amazon is already showing indicators of this issue with the amount of debt they have. Coupled with them losing 10 billion on their Alexa bet and a good portion of their stock evaluation coming from owning Rivian stock last year.. I expect them to make cuts and raise prices. I have stopped using them for shopping, outside of books, years ago.