which pgm is accessing the net?

[rikona]

On Mon, 04 Jan 2021 08:06:52 -0000
Grizzly via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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

Thanks for the suggestion. In ancient Windows days I used to use a
hosts file, but it was a big effort to maintain, and I stopped.

I tried blocking the address with the firewall, which is easy. BUT - a
couple of minutes later googlevideo comes up again, with a small change
in the address. It looks like they have a gazillion addresses they can
use, as you are suggesting. :-(((

Please refresh my mind. If the actual address is
abcde12345.googlevideo.com, and I put just googlevideo.com in the hosts
file, will that block any version of the abc... part, or do I need the
entire address in hosts? How can I block [whatever].googlevideo.com?

And, I'd still like to know if there's a way to ID the actual pgm doing
the access. That would be VERY helpful.