Adblock is ethically equivalent to theft. This is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned (even if it wasn't deliberate).
GitHub disabled adguard filters repository
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Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository
#32Maybe it's being taken down because GitHub is not happy about serving as a free CDN for a non-source code repository?
Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository
#33The 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.
*in phishing, not in malware. Adguard domains are unlikely to be found in malware.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Better yet some kind of decentralized source control protocol.
Technically git is already decentralized, the issue is where git repos get hosted.
Your parent message is clearly sarcasm (I think - text makes this hard to say for sure, but I usually assume the better option). But yeah, turns out that people don't really want a distributed version control system (at least git works offline, which was not true for its predecessors).
Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository
#35pure 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.
FWIW:
* I often put malware samples in my repositories on github (I prepare malware analysis trainings, and I develop my trainings on github). Never got banned.
* There are a ton of leaked malware sources (and/or binaries) stored on github. They are not banned
* Github is full of blatantly obvious malware (at best "pentesting tools", at worst "educational projects"). Sadly, not banned too.
Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository
#36Adblock is ethically equivalent to theft. This is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned (even if it wasn't deliberate).
A webpage serves many elements, all to which you are entitled to see. Adblock is just a way to decide which elements you see or do not see. Your ethical position, that we are compelled to see everything served to us, is troublesome.
Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository
#37Adblock is ethically equivalent to theft. This is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned (even if it wasn't deliberate).
A webpage serves many elements, all to which you are entitled to see. Adblock is just a way to decide which elements you see or do not see. Your ethical position, that we are compelled to see everything served to us, is troublesome.
When you visit a website or a YouTube video, there is an implied social contract that you will view the ads and allows trackers in exchange for consuming content. Otherwise, you are essentially freeloading off peoples' hard work. If you are not happy with the ads, simply go to another website that doesn't serve ads, host your own PeerTube instance or whatever. Just don't steal and then be entitled about it.
Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository
#38Adblock is ethically equivalent to theft. This is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned (even if it wasn't deliberate).
Ads have been brainwashing people for centuries, and they now deliver malware.
As you once elegantly said: “It's like natural selection except our society has not selected them.” We now have the tools to remove them from the gene pool and it’s a good thing.
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Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
A webpage serves many elements, all to which you are entitled to see. Adblock is just a way to decide which elements you see or do not see. Your ethical position, that we are compelled to see everything served to us, is troublesome.
When you visit a website or a YouTube video, there is an implied social contract that you will view the ads and allows trackers in exchange for consuming content. Otherwise, you are essentially freeloading off peoples' hard work. If you are not happy with the ads, simply go to another website that doesn't serve ads, host your own PeerTube instance or whatever. Just don't steal and then be entitled about it.
Using adblockers is a safety measure.
Since ads on websites today are known to spread malware and the ad industry has not been able or is not interested in fixing this I don‘t see any value in discussing your idea.