A lot of the pastebins are common targets for such things .. the likelihood they are blocked seems to just increase with their popularity.
These days hblock also blocks 0x0 by default .. as do a number of VPNs on their ‘anti-malware’ side if provided.
This is all related to the idea that script-kiddies can leverage them for deploying their malicious code.
But like .. that can happen in infinite ways (from github gists to self-hosted to..), so I think its a bit silly. Then again if you dont use them then I guess there wouldnt be much harm in blocking them.
But I use those kinds of things a pretty good amount so its a tad annoying.
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