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I’m not sure why you think that a domain blocklist would be harder than custom search engine development. Plus there’s no private Google API here, just an exte
by upbeat_general 5y ago
I’m not sure why you think that a domain blocklist would be harder than custom search engine development.
Plus there’s no private Google API here, just an extension that removes search results from the page. I suppose you could say the extension APIs are from Google (Chromium) but they’re certainly not private and are commonly used.
- fsflover 5y agoDoesn't this extension depend on how exactly the ads are presented on the page? Can't this be changed by Google easily? > I’m not sure why you think that a domain blocklist would be harder than custom search engine development. I didn't say this. The custom search is already created. Helping it's development is much easier now. AFAIK it's main problem is the lack of hosted servers.
- upbeat_general 5y agoI'm not sure about the specifics on how uBlacklist works but these[0] uBlock origin filters seem to be very basic and invariant to small changes. Google could certainly could make them harder to remove but given that they don't put up much of a fuss (to my knowledge) for their normal ads (YouTube not included), I don't see why this would be otherwise. Fair enough about a custom search engine though, I misinterpreted your comment. [0]: https://github.com/stroobants-dev/ublock-origin-shitty-copies-filter https://github.com/stroobants-dev/ublock-origin-shitty-copie...