What happens if a legitimate site (forums, wiki, etc) gets mass-spammed with slop?
Then that is the webmaster's problem and not mine, I'd want it blocked.
AI uBlock Blacklist
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> And get all your friends to switch to Adguard extension and Adguard Home (Pi Hole alternative) as blockers. Nice of you to slip this "easy" step into your advice. Give me a break!
..? If you know how to run a Pi Hole, you know how to run Adguard Home. And installing Chromium / Firefox / Safari extensions isn't exactly rocket science.
The crux is in the sentence of yours:
>...all your friends to switch to ...:-))
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you say the same about a block list that blocks anything else? I don't care how obvious an ad is, I don't want to see it. Same with social widgets or cookie consent banners, or newsletter sign-ups. But I wouldn't call the person that maintains the news letter popup block list as "newsletter hater"
>Would you say the same about a block list that blocks anything else? I don't care how obvious an ad is, I don't want to see it. Same with social widgets or cookie consent banners, or newsletter sign-ups. He's not complaining that widgets for his favorite social network site is getting blocked, he's complaining that anything vaguely related to social networks are getting banned. Some of the sites on that list are stu…
Its an AI block list. Not an "AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines" block list.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do use "blocklist" on new project and name my main "trunk" and not "master" but I'll both a ) defend other's rights to use terms like blocklists and master and b ) call out the virtue signalling ones who are trying to push a political agenda by trying to control thoughts (by attempting to control speech).
There's no political interest here. (Although I believe EVERYTHING is political, including not taking a stand!) The only point I'm making is that (as a Black person) I have the authority to tell you that it's important and how I feel. You can defend whatever you want, I'm just communicating and SUGGESTING that you change the term. What I find funny is that many here argue that we can't even SUGGEST. And they still sa…
As another black person (3rd gen Ghanaian, sp), you can get lost, and you have no 'authority' (really?) at all to tell me/ others how you feel.
Blacklist it is, for me.
Eu-based, fwiw. As i grew up we were coloUred, for a while, and then 'black' became the easy way to descibe ourselves.
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#135Ublock Origin also already has an “AI widget” blocklist you can enable. Literally the only extension that keeps me on Firefox because of how useless it is on Chromium.
Assuming you're talking about Manifest V2 deprecation: you can disable it in Chromium-based browsers by launching with `--disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled`, and enjoy uBlock once again. See also the github discussion: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/29...
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Reminder that false positives are not only possible but likely. I remember one instance where you could get people banned by sending them a specific string of characters over chat. Anticheat was scanning the entire contents of RAM looking for it. These days anticheat software is likely to snap at anything. Who knows what they think of the development tools Hacker News users are likely to have on their computers? They…
Yeah that's what the people love to say on the Steam forums when they've gotten busted in one of its many ban waves.
Never claimed otherwise. Just saying it's a fact of life that every test has false positives and false negatives. The "is this player cheating" test is no exception.
Check out this amazing episode:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
Dude got so fed up with long loading times he debugged the game and not only discovered the cause but actually fixed it. Billion dollar corporation couldn't be assed to do it.
Gotta wonder if this guy wouldn't have gotten banned by the anticheat for having the audacity to hook into the game with a debugger or something. Only cheaters do that sort of thing right?
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah that's what the people love to say on the Steam forums when they've gotten busted in one of its many ban waves.
Never claimed otherwise. Just saying it's a fact of life that every test has false positives and false negatives. The "is this player cheating" test is no exception. Check out this amazing episode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 Dude got so fed up with long loading times he debugged the game and not only discovered the cause but actually fixed it. Billion dollar corporation couldn't be assed to do it.…
Yeah that would be a reasonable thing to ban for. Companies can't afford to audit every single unauthorized tampering with their software to ensure that it's benign. If it results in better cheat detection, far better to have a policy that's unobstrusive and non-applicable to 99.99% of users and something the marginal outliers will understand is a risk.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't know English and you want to write English anyway, please just use a machine translator.
From experience: If you don't know Danish, please don't ever use machine translators to translate from English. Regardless of what some people may think, they make mistakes, so many mistakes. I get why it's tempting, good translators are expensive, and few and far between. A friend of my is a professional translator and she's not exactly in need of work, but a lot of customers look at her prices and opt for machine t…
I meant in contexts like online discussions, not like a news article or something. Is the result completely unintelligible, or just not great?
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#140I feel like this is a bit of a sinking ship. I suppose if you want to avoid known sources of slop then this works … but beyond that it’s a bit of a lost cause. It’s like sports betting — once it’s there then there’s no saying who is (ab)using it.
It's not perfect, but in time my search results have gone from the first several pages being mostly garbage to mostly all good. Sure, new spam sites crop up every few days, but it's a quick block.