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Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by btown »

throawayonthe wrote: post #2

pure speculation but i bet it’s somehow because it contains links to copyrighted/illegal content (to block it) lmao

Or just plain old links to malware, because sometimes even non-interactive links in a plaintext document can be presented by an attacker with context that socially-engineers a target to copy-paste a malicious URL into a browser.

I'm actually shocked that Github didn't have Adguard white-listed to prevent this from being picked up by malware scanning tools already. And it's a shame, because the whole point of scanning for malware is to protect people from falling victim to new attacks, and killing the filter repository is entirely counter to that goal.

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by layer8 »

crooked-v wrote: post #8
teqsun wrote: post #4

I see adblockers as another casualty of the end of the ZIRP era. Big Tech was benevolent when the money was free, but now that they have to tighten the waistband all the nice open-sourced add-ons (like 3rd party readers, ad-blockers, etc.) are all getting killed off (or at least they're trying to)

On the other hand, Apple is adding a "this is totally not an adblocker, I promise" it's-obviously-an-adblocker to the next version of Safari as a builtin feature. It's pretty barebones, as Apple copycat features tend to be, but I think it's a decent indicator of their attitude on the subject.

My understanding is that it’s a DOM element hider. While it is possible to hide some ads with it, it probably won’t disable the tracking.

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by nephyrin »

For those that haven't bothered clicking the link, they add:

> Github was struggling with "malware" comment spam lately and we added several filter rules that block this stuff. Maybe this is what triggered disabling the repo?

The comments so far immediately jumping to conspiracy speculation is depressing.

It's already back up.

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by a1o »

crooked-v wrote: post #8
teqsun wrote: post #4

I see adblockers as another casualty of the end of the ZIRP era. Big Tech was benevolent when the money was free, but now that they have to tighten the waistband all the nice open-sourced add-ons (like 3rd party readers, ad-blockers, etc.) are all getting killed off (or at least they're trying to)

On the other hand, Apple is adding a "this is totally not an adblocker, I promise" it's-obviously-an-adblocker to the next version of Safari as a builtin feature. It's pretty barebones, as Apple copycat features tend to be, but I think it's a decent indicator of their attitude on the subject.

There are adblockers for Safari too in the Appstore

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by ameshkov »

The issue is resolved now, the repo is available again.

We have not received any response to the support case that we opened, but we assume that it was a false positive of some automatic algorithm.

As a consequence of this we're going to set up a mirror outside Github so that the work didn't stop if something like that happens again.

UPD: We received the official response explaining that this was a mistake. I must admit the whole situation was resolved really quickly, good job.

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

sethops1 wrote: post #10

Maybe it's being taken down because GitHub is not happy about serving as a free CDN for a non-source code repository?

But they've encouraged uses like this for ages, see also Github Pages.

If they're going to change the policy, at least announce it first...

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