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Would you submit this to an the awesome list I’ve made for uBlacklist? I love uBlacklist, but I felt the community aspect of it was missing, and vital to its s

Would you submit this to an the awesome list I’ve made for uBlacklist? I love uBlacklist, but I felt the community aspect of it was missing, and vital to its success. I felt bootstrapping lists and GitHub repos was the most instantaneous way to enable a community. I comment each time it hits HN, but beyond that haven’t seen much uptake / contribution towards building blacklists. https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist

franga2000 5y ago
And awesome list is a great idea! I have a huge blocklist of those fake machine-translated e-commerce sites that just redirect to AliExpress. I'll try to remember to submit it later today
- xorcist 5y ago
  Isn't this equally possible with a uBlock blocklist? I already trust gorhill, and a bunch of Firefox maintainers, with my life and my passwords.
  - franga2000 5y ago
    I'm guessing you haven't tried it. uBlacklist is purpose-built for search filtering, so the UX is far better - It pretty much feels like an official part of Google Search. Next to each result is a single-click block button and the results can be shown/hidden with a button in the top options bar. uBlock gives you all the building blocks, but you have to assemble and manage them yourself. As for trust, that's a more general issue. Personally, I can't imagine someone would go through this much trouble just to ship a trojan and I find the probability of their GitHub and AMO account being compromised quite unlikely since there are far more lucrative targets for such an attacker - including uBlock Origin. I guess there's always the possibility of auditing the code and installing a self-signed version with no automatic updates.
    - pbronez 5y ago
      > Personally, I can't imagine someone would go through this much trouble just to ship a trojan I agree it’s not very risky, but I can absolutely imagine this.
- kriro 5y ago
  Thanks a lot. Pinterest and the Stack Overflow translations are a great start. I'm using that + *://*.quora.com/* now and feel like my web experience is already a lot better :D

franga2000 5y ago

And awesome list is a great idea! I have a huge blocklist of those fake machine-translated e-commerce sites that just redirect to AliExpress. I'll try to remember to submit it later today

xorcist 5y ago
Isn't this equally possible with a uBlock blocklist? I already trust gorhill, and a bunch of Firefox maintainers, with my life and my passwords.
- franga2000 5y ago
  I'm guessing you haven't tried it. uBlacklist is purpose-built for search filtering, so the UX is far better - It pretty much feels like an official part of Google Search. Next to each result is a single-click block button and the results can be shown/hidden with a button in the top options bar. uBlock gives you all the building blocks, but you have to assemble and manage them yourself. As for trust, that's a more general issue. Personally, I can't imagine someone would go through this much trouble just to ship a trojan and I find the probability of their GitHub and AMO account being compromised quite unlikely since there are far more lucrative targets for such an attacker - including uBlock Origin. I guess there's always the possibility of auditing the code and installing a self-signed version with no automatic updates.
  - pbronez 5y ago
    > Personally, I can't imagine someone would go through this much trouble just to ship a trojan I agree it’s not very risky, but I can absolutely imagine this.
kriro 5y ago
Thanks a lot. Pinterest and the Stack Overflow translations are a great start. I'm using that + *://*.quora.com/* now and feel like my web experience is already a lot better :D