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Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by teqsun »

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)

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by giancarlostoro »

throawayonthe wrote: post #2

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

Not that I agree, but for future reference, they keep all their DMCAs public here:

https://github.com/github/dmca

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by kevingadd »

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.

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by crooked-v »

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.

Re: GitHub disabled adguard filters repository

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Post by frizlab »

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.

They intended it as an adblocker initially and dialed back the tone because of pressure from ad companies and co.
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