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Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by rsync »

ameshkov wrote: post #18

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 ad…

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Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by dopp0 »

kevingadd wrote: post #7
throawayonthe wrote: post #2

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

Yeah putting full unobfuscated links to malware or copyrighted content into your repository seems like an obvious way to get it blocked. If they masked the URLs a bit it might've been fine.

if they were obfuscated the urls the app itself would need to process it to un-obfuscate, then the performance would take a hit, but I get your point. It's just the wrong service to host this.

PS: could not check the link, as my country blocked twitter.

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by Brian_K_White »

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?

The title says the repo is a filters repo. Did the repo actually contain filter rules, or was it used to distribute the closed source plugin package?

I would argue filter rules count as source code as much as anything else. It doesn't matter if the thing reading the filter rules is not open source.

Aside from that, github intentionally hosts all kinds of content that isn't literally code. gists, pages, wiki, discussions, issues.

People also host books on github where the text is the code and git is the update system and github is the distribution system, all exactly the same as with a c program. It's not abusing the system like using the CI compute to do random other work, it's using the facilities for exactly what they are each intended for. github wants everyone to use and grow to depend on github for things like that.

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by lacker »

ameshkov wrote: post #18

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 ad…

This does seem like exactly the sort of thing that would trigger false positives. The product is fundamentally a list of a bunch of text found in malware, so any sort of malware detector that's based on the textual content seems likely to give a false positive.

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by tredre3 »

rsync wrote: post #21
ameshkov wrote: post #18

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 ad…

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They're using github as an HTTP CDN, are you saying that rsync.net now supports this use case?

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by ameshkov »

tredre3 wrote: post #28
rsync wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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They're using github as an HTTP CDN, are you saying that rsync.net now supports this use case?

We don't use GH as a CDN, it's used solely for developing filter lists and issue reports.

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by auguzanellato »

mulmen wrote: post #23
Havoc wrote: post #17

We really need at least a duopoly in the git space. Nothing against github per se but they've got way too much of the mindshare.

Better yet some kind of decentralized source control protocol.

Technically git is already decentralized, the issue is where git repos get hosted.
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