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cool! now s/\.it/every TLD/ and you solved domain spam forever. /s You might not know that 99.99% of .it domains with urls ending up in .html are completely

cool! now s/\.it/every TLD/ and you solved domain spam forever. /s You might not know that 99.99% of .it domains with urls ending up in .html are completely legit, including some official government one.

nkrisc 4y ago
Since uBlock is run on the client, unless you’re Italian or interested in Italian sites it doesn’t really seem like much of an issue. I could block all .it sites on my network and I’d likely never even notice.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago
  yeah, right, unless you're american, why should you care about .com domains? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the problem is not .it domains, it's clearly stated in the linked post A large number of spam pages are indexed when searching by our product name. It’s very similar to Japanese Keyword hack, but the difference is that our site is not hacked so it's definitely an indexing issue, those .it domains are being indexed for the Japanese word hack for some reason, it's not that .it domains are particularly spammy per se. Your "solution" would filter the vast minority of the abusers at the cost of banning an entire TLD, not much different than turning off the internet connection entirely. Most of the spam on the internet comes from .com domains though, even more so because registering a .com domain is much easier than getting an .it Are you willing to ban .com too?
  - kzrdude 4y ago
    .com implies spam - it's commercial, so let's go ahead. If it's not .org I'm not playing. /s
    - plank 4y ago
      And yet, here you are, and not on ycombinator.org? ;-)
  - nkrisc 4y ago
    > Your "solution" would filter the vast minority of the abusers at the cost of banning an entire TLD, not much different than turning off the internet connection entirely. Again, we’re talking about client-side filtering. The original comment about blocking .it domains was talking about a uBlock Origin rule. No one’s talking about blocking .it domains from the web. Yes, as an American, I could block all .it domains on my end and my web experience likely wouldn’t change at all. I rarely, if ever, need to visit .it domains. So maybe I will.
  - krono 4y ago
    This visually hides the HTML elements on Google Search and for me only. There is no networking involved and so Italian TLDs are still reachable. This is a personal solution to an extremely disruptive and long standing problem, and only affects those who choose to employ it. It's not hurting anyone.
- tbran 4y ago
  Nah. I've been reading the docs on Spatialite (the spatial extension for SQLite) at http://www.gaia-gis.it/ http://www.gaia-gis.it/ the last couple days. It has both a "spam" TLD and a design from 1998.
fijiaarone 4y ago
But not many of the official government ones.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago
  official government in Italy also means cities, towns, hospitals, universities, public schools etc There are 8 thousands towns in Italy, each with their own .it website.
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nkrisc 4y ago

Since uBlock is run on the client, unless you’re Italian or interested in Italian sites it doesn’t really seem like much of an issue. I could block all .it sites on my network and I’d likely never even notice.

peoplefromibiza 4y ago
yeah, right, unless you're american, why should you care about .com domains? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the problem is not .it domains, it's clearly stated in the linked post A large number of spam pages are indexed when searching by our product name. It’s very similar to Japanese Keyword hack, but the difference is that our site is not hacked so it's definitely an indexing issue, those .it domains are being indexed for the Japanese word hack for some reason, it's not that .it domains are particularly spammy per se. Your "solution" would filter the vast minority of the abusers at the cost of banning an entire TLD, not much different than turning off the internet connection entirely. Most of the spam on the internet comes from .com domains though, even more so because registering a .com domain is much easier than getting an .it Are you willing to ban .com too?
- kzrdude 4y ago
  .com implies spam - it's commercial, so let's go ahead. If it's not .org I'm not playing. /s
  - plank 4y ago
    And yet, here you are, and not on ycombinator.org? ;-)
- nkrisc 4y ago
  > Your "solution" would filter the vast minority of the abusers at the cost of banning an entire TLD, not much different than turning off the internet connection entirely. Again, we’re talking about client-side filtering. The original comment about blocking .it domains was talking about a uBlock Origin rule. No one’s talking about blocking .it domains from the web. Yes, as an American, I could block all .it domains on my end and my web experience likely wouldn’t change at all. I rarely, if ever, need to visit .it domains. So maybe I will.
- krono 4y ago
  This visually hides the HTML elements on Google Search and for me only. There is no networking involved and so Italian TLDs are still reachable. This is a personal solution to an extremely disruptive and long standing problem, and only affects those who choose to employ it. It's not hurting anyone.
tbran 4y ago
Nah. I've been reading the docs on Spatialite (the spatial extension for SQLite) at http://www.gaia-gis.it/ http://www.gaia-gis.it/ the last couple days. It has both a "spam" TLD and a design from 1998.

fijiaarone 4y ago

But not many of the official government ones.

peoplefromibiza 4y ago
official government in Italy also means cities, towns, hospitals, universities, public schools etc There are 8 thousands towns in Italy, each with their own .it website.

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