which pgm is accessing the net?

[Grizzly]

04 January 2021  at 8:33, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
Re: which pgm is accessing the net? (at least in part)

>I seriously doubt that pausing a video does stop a flash player from
>causing traffic, assuming it's software from Adobe or Google. In my
>experiences there's no "stop", let alone an "off" option. I usually see
>a "pause" or "play" button only. FWIW at least Firefox re-enables google
>crap all the time, see about:config, "safebrowsing" is for "it's safe
>that Google can spy you", so it's unlikely that a media player mainly
>aimed to show advertising, doesn't do something evil in the background,
>even if it doesn't play a video. "Skip ad in n seconds" and be ready
>for the next ad our algorithm will assign to you, based on the data
>mining our "gratis" services and programs do.

Adding ALL (I've got 463 so far) google servers to your Hosts file may help 
with that, but you "may" lose something you would miss, for me I find almost no 
loss of service doing this