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Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

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Post by skeeter2020 »

jorvi wrote: post #59
TonyTrapp wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yuuup. My personal website has been inaccessible to a few friends, they thought my server was down. It turned out they had some blocklist (not related to AI) installed on their PiHole, and for whatever reason my website was on that list. It is, in fact, to this day, because my request to unblock it went completely unanswered. I still don't know why the website is on the list.

Go to the Adguard GitHub (or use the extension) and report it. And get all your friends to switch to Adguard extension and Adguard Home (Pi Hole alternative) as blockers. Easylist and its sublist are notorious for being poorly maintained and ignoring issues opened against it. Adguard is much more active in maintaining its lists. Especially Adguard its language blocklists have much, much less breakage and missed ads t…

>> 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!

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

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Post by Chris2048 »

quiet35 wrote: post #38

I like the idea and even considered contributing to the list, but this stopped me: > NAQ (Never Asked Questions) > My website is on your list! > Cry about it. That's quite a suspicious attitude. Clearly the maintainer believes he is infallible. I understand the emotions behind this, but this is not how a public blacklist should be maintained.

Not any more it seems: https://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist/commit/7ebaa7...

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

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Post by skeeter2020 »

Larrikin wrote: post #76
the_biot wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would add that with this attitude and how new this initiative is, there's very little chance it will still be updated 5 years from now. Really this sort of thing needs to come from Easylist or similar, who have a track record of maintaining these for years.

I don't understand the need for the author to commit the rest of his life to this or start a foundation. It is a good list for now and if its never updated again, that seems fine.

in that case they should just contribute to one of the existing, more established lists. We don't need n+1 standards...

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

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Post by greyman »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #87
greyman wrote: post #71

Meta question: do you guys feel the adblockers will maybe not be that important in the future? As for myself, I ended up to use just a few websites, but those are reputable and I don't mind a few ads they provide. The only adblock which is still very much needed is one for Youtube.

I used to run pihole on a Pi and now I directly run unbound , still on a Pi. The difference on a great many sites is night and day: you simply get way fewer ads. And that's just by using a DNS blocklist. Occasionally I'll get one site that refuses to load because I've got an "adblocker" but most sites do work fine, just with way fewer ads.

I usually now just ask agent, for example Gemini in Antigravity to check certain article or a group of articles, like "check all AI-related article in tldr.tech and tell what is interesting"... I am already a bit lazy to browse myself, and in this process I dont care about ads.

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

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Post by tokenless »

well_ackshually wrote: post #78
quiet35 wrote: post #38

I like the idea and even considered contributing to the list, but this stopped me: > NAQ (Never Asked Questions) > My website is on your list! > Cry about it. That's quite a suspicious attitude. Clearly the maintainer believes he is infallible. I understand the emotions behind this, but this is not how a public blacklist should be maintained.

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Problem is if this becomes popular and people being lazy assume blocked site means slop without checking, then the repo has a lot of power to break innocent sites.

I don't have an answer because as you say with power comes people wrangling over power. And claw sloperators can be way more persistent!

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

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Post by Larrikin »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #93
Larrikin wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand the need for the author to commit the rest of his life to this or start a foundation. It is a good list for now and if its never updated again, that seems fine.

in that case they should just contribute to one of the existing, more established lists. We don't need n+1 standards...

Which lists is open to this kind of contribution?

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

#100

Post by filldorns »

charonn0 wrote: post #69
filldorns wrote: post #63

Come on guys, 2026 and you still using "blacklist". Why not BlockList?

Because changing blacklist to blocklist, master to main, etc. is a meaningless act of virtue signalling.

So what? Your proposal is to change nothing, continue as is, and subtly continue using terms like "blacklist" as something bad and "whitelist" as something good... I don't think I understand your point. I don't see any real sense in it.

Unfortunately, MANY people still think this is nonsense and shouldn't be given attention. What you don't understand is that you subtly say that things from Black people are bad and things from white people are good. Do you know what that causes in the end?

A company "of Black people" applies for YC and has a higher chance of being rejected than a company of/for white people, even if it's a necessary solution. You doubt it? Try it!

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