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AI uBlock Blacklist
- rdmuser 8mo agoA new more grounded list focused on specifically blocking content farms and similar low quality sites. A nice alternative to this very broad anti ai list: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist Edit: Oh I should mention I found it through reddit and there is some good discussion there where they describe how they find stuff etc: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1r9uo3j/automatically_blocking_ai_content_farms/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1r9uo3j/autom...
- xnx 8mo agoHasn't been updated in 5 months
- rdmuser 8mo agoOh good point I also overlooked that with the anti ai list. The big anti ai list also seems to be focused on hiding links from ddg/bing/google where this new more focused list just blocks sites. I tend to like block ones vs hiding because they pop up a nice warning no matter where I came from and I can still decide to ignore it if I want so they is more user agency instead of just quietly hiding a unclear chunk of the net from search engines.
- Dwedit 8mo agoThe broad list seems to just be a hater list. It's not trying to cover cases of deception (passing off AI material as if it's something else), as it includes sites which are very open about what kind of content is on there.
- malfist 8mo agoWould you say the same about a block list that blocks anything else? I don't care how obvious an ad is, I don't want to see it. Same with social widgets or cookie consent banners, or newsletter sign-ups. But I wouldn't call the person that maintains the news letter popup block list as "newsletter hater"
- gruez 8mo ago>Would you say the same about a block list that blocks anything else? I don't care how obvious an ad is, I don't want to see it. Same with social widgets or cookie consent banners, or newsletter sign-ups. He's not complaining that widgets for his favorite social network site is getting blocked, he's complaining that anything vaguely related to social networks are getting banned. Some of the sites on that list are stuff like chatgpt.com, which might be AI related, but clearly doesn't fit the criteria of "AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines".
- malfist 8mo agoIts an AI block list. Not an "AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines" block list.
- hogwasher 8mo agoThe purpose of the broad list is removing AI-generated content from search results, so that the user doesn't have to wade through (as much) slop to find the human-created content they're looking for. While I applaud the honesty of sites that are open about their content being AI generated, that type of content is never what I'm looking for when I search, so if they're in my search results it's just more distraction/clutter drowning out whatever I'm actually looking for. Blocking them improves my search experience slightly, even though there is of course still lots of other unwanted results remaining. Granted, I definitely count as an AI hater (speaking of LLM's specifically). But even if I weren't, I don't think I'd be seeking it out specifically using a search engine; why would I do that when I could just go straight to chatgpt or whatever myself? Search is usually where people go to find real human answers (which is why appending "reddit" to one's searches became so common). So I see this as a utility thing, more than a "I am blocking all this just because I hate it" thing. Although it can be both, certainly. Edit: removed an off-topic tangent
- lawtalkinghuman 8mo agoIf my goal is not seeing AI slop, I don't particularly care whether it is honestly labelled or not.
- smusamashah 8mo agoSo there is a spreadsheet of websites. That is very interesting. There was an article here sometime ago about a media group who have so many super SEOd websites. They all have common footer text. I searched and added as many as I could find in uBlacklist. I have a gist listing them and how I searched for them. You might find that useful. Edit: https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6573b27441d99a0a0c79243170c9e6b1 https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6573b27441d99a0a0c792431...
- tkel 8mo agoThanks, I added both lists
- lifthrasiir 8mo agoNot necessarily disagreeing the whole principle... > All I hear is skill issue. Imagine needing an AI to write stuff. Grammarly users (and underrepresented non-English speakers) would complain.
- rdmuser 8mo agoPersonally I find that I prefer badly written english or auto-translated stuff written in languages foreign to me over ai generated or even just ai polished works I've seen. There is just so much more character, depth and variance there vs ultra ai generic or slop text. That being said this project seems focused on content farms not people who just need a little help writing so this whole conversation is a bit of a side tangent.
- lifthrasiir 8mo agoI mean, I know it is probably tongue in cheek but that never-asked-question was particularly out of place. Massively generated AI contents are usually not THAT thoughtful anyway.
- flkiwi 8mo agoOne of my coworkers is EXTREMELY capable but functionally almost illiterate. He’s recently discovered that he can put an idea in Copilot and have it generate an email. So now instead of brief, correct, but difficult to parse emails we receive 20-paragraph, bulleted, formatted OpenAI slop. It’s been a very strange thing to see, like someone getting extraordinarily bad cosmetic surgery.
- dawnerd 8mo agoSam, and when you ask them a deeper question about it on a call they usually have no idea. It’s making people very lazy.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoYeah I hate it when people do that and I always call them out on it. Unfortunately our company is trying to be "AI First" so they'll just point to that and continue their bullshit. Our company literally promotes AI slop over personally made content even if it's mediocre crap. All they care about is rising usage numbers of things like copilot in office.
- afcool83 8mo agoAdmirable idea and execution…but it does apply opposing evolutionary/economic pressure for AI-slop to become less detectable over time. AI will learn and adapt. Metaphorically speaking, it’s the Borg we’re dealing with, not the Klingons. All Janeway did was slow the Borg’s progress.
- mapontosevenths 8mo agoCory Doctorow wrote a story ~20 years ago about how the first sentient machines would be spam bots because their job is to pass as human, and anti-spam systems provide competitive evolutionary pressure. He may not be too far off.
- tetris11 8mo agoThis one? https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_I_Row-Boat.html https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocke...
- mapontosevenths 8mo agoI think that's the one. I was a bit off on the timing, it's not 20 yet. Great read either way. From the story: “Spam-filters, actually. Once they became self-modifying, spam-filters and spam-bots got into a war to see which could act more human, and since their failures invoked a human judgement about whether their material were convincingly human, it was like a trillion Turing-tests from which they could learn. From there came the first machine-intelligence algorithms, and then my kind.”
- smohare 8mo ago[dead]
- alansaber 8mo agoIt's actually rather difficult for SoTA models to shift tone without losing performance on various datasets, so not such a one-sided arms race.
- semiinfinitely 8mo agoTragic twist: repo was entirely AI generated
- mixtureoftakes 8mo agomedia.tenor.com/oW5zO_6gu5gAAAAi/theomegaoof-emoji.gif
- Dwedit 8mo agoWhat happens if a legitimate site (forums, wiki, etc) gets mass-spammed with slop?
- harladsinsteden 8mo agoI ceases to be legitimate.
- Joel_Mckay 8mo agoRegistration process requiring a trivial task like "introduce yourself", 24 hour account activation delay, and email a one time login-code every time. The bots and SEO spammers already fill sites with garbage =3
- KomoD 8mo agoThen that is the webmaster's problem and not mine, I'd want it blocked.
- firebot 8mo agoFirefox already feeling more responsive.
- metalman 8mo agoflip it, and build green(organic) lists perhaps work towards having sites than dont just, not use AI, but never talk about it it's not just AI, search is a scam, no mojo in the world can extract the contact info for the business next door and the mountains of porncoin, scamulous garbage and hate news taking up a full 50% of whats left, does in fact make a determined effort to greenwall a section of the web something to consider
- amelius 8mo agoAt least we're not yet in the phase where we have a whitelist for the internet.
- papichulo2023 8mo agoWe were close but the app dominance declined.
- throwatdem12311 8mo agoUblock Origin also already has an “AI widget” blocklist you can enable. Literally the only extension that keeps me on Firefox because of how useless it is on Chromium.
- stratos123 8mo agoAssuming you're talking about Manifest V2 deprecation: you can disable it in Chromium-based browsers by launching with `--disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled`, and enjoy uBlock once again. See also the github discussion: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/2977 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/29...
- dimava 8mo agoAlso check the https://botblock.ai/ https://botblock.ai/ , AI extension to detect AI replies on twitter
- add-sub-mul-div 8mo agoThat's a curious one, Twitter is worthless anyway. Before AI bots proliferated, the change to rank paid accounts high in replies turned it into a de facto entry level $8/month advertising tier.
- srid 8mo agoDoes it even work? I ask becaue it considers @lilycoy__ (an obvious AI generated account, as quoted by Robin Hanson <https://x.com/robinhanson/status/2025332066552819782 https://x.com/robinhanson/status/2025332066552819782>) to be "100% human" https://i.imgur.com/NQHVcdM.png https://i.imgur.com/NQHVcdM.png
- driverdan 8mo agoA better option is to stop using it entirely.
- quiet35 8mo agoI 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.
- TonyTrapp 8mo agoYuuup. 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.
- VladVladikoff 8mo agoPerhaps it got hacked and was hosting malware without you being aware? They are pretty good at hiding it from the site owner (showing the original website to you, but not to others).
- TonyTrapp 8mo agoThe server is and has been clean the whole time. I don't even run WordPress or anything similar on that server that would be a common hacking target. If it was hacked, I'm pretty sure Google Safe Browsing would be the first to flag the site, not some random PiHole list.
- jorvi 8mo agoGo 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 than Easylist.
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- nicbou 8mo agoWhy? He posts high-quality content that's interesting if you care about that field. It's not my cup of tea, but it's pretty far from what this list tries to block.
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- eclipticplane 8mo agoHis articles are _about_ AI though, not AI slop?
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- TacticalCoder 8mo agoI take it you're talking about the user here with the nick simonw? I find his comments on HN interesting and balanced: don't know why you think he should be filtered out.
- ramon156 8mo agoI would rather have a whitelist that adds a nice tag at the end of the link, indicating that overall it has high quality content. This also forces you to periodically check the sites you've whitelisted
- ossa-ma 8mo agoGlad we're moving in this direction, I've also got a tool that I use to determine if writing is AI using common tropes and reconstruct the OG prompt from it: https://tropes.fyi/aidr https://tropes.fyi/aidr
- mh- 8mo agoHaha, that's a neat idea. Thanks for sharing. https://tropes.fyi/aidr/b184cf3a https://tropes.fyi/aidr/b184cf3a https://tropes.fyi/aidr/9b132f92 https://tropes.fyi/aidr/9b132f92
- filldorns 8mo agoCome on guys, 2026 and you still using "blacklist". Why not BlockList?
- charonn0 8mo agoBecause changing blacklist to blocklist, master to main, etc. is a meaningless act of virtue signalling.
- Thanemate 8mo agoI'd argue it's not meaningless because the point wasn't to show inclusion but power. Nobody went for master's degrees, "master" as a rank in video games, or anything else. Reminds me of [1]twitch.tv trying to remove "blind playthrough" as a tag to encourage inclusive language. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/k7dvgw/twitch_removing_blind_playthrough_tag_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/k7dvgw/twitch_remov...
- Symbiote 8mo agoGitHub changed the default branch name from master to main.
- filldorns 8mo agoSo 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!
- charonn0 8mo agoNo, I'm not proposing to change nothing, continue as is, nor do I use coded language to express my secret inner racism. I'm saying that changing words like "blacklist" or "master" is purely performative and actually quite selfish. People do it to feel good about themselves for "helping" without actually having to do anything helpful. It's the moral equivalent of sending "thoughts and prayers".
- notepad0x90 8mo agoLove this, I wish there were more and broader categories of sites one could block. You can always temporarily allow sites. In the enterprise space, there are URL reputation providers. They categorize sites based on different criteria, and network administrators block or warn users based on that information. In my humble opinion, there needs to be a crowdsourced fund (or ideally governments would take this seriously and fund it on behalf of people) for enabling technologies that allow user friendly internet experiences. Browsers, frameworks, vpn providers, site-reputation, deceptive content, dns-providers, email providers,trusted certificate authorities(no,google and microsoft shouldn't get to police that), nation-state or corporate affiliations,etc... You shouldn't need to setup a pi-hole. Imagine a $1B/yr non-profit fund for this stuff. if 10M people paid $10/mo that's $1.2B/yr. Proton has $97M revenue in 2024 and 100M total accounts (I don't know how many pay but the spread is roughly $1/user). I really think now is the time to talk about this when so many are wary of US tech giants and looking for other opportunities.
- greyman 8mo agoMeta 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.
- diath 8mo agoAccording to uBlock Origin it blocked 9.5 million requests to ads/third party trackers since I installed it. So yes, it's very much needed.
- xboxnolifes 8mo agoI dont think this is a sign of the times or the future. I think its just your own personal browsing habits.
- Grom_PE 8mo agoI feel that blocking, substituting, and even inserting user-defined resources for a website must be a native browser feature.
- TacticalCoder 8mo agoI 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.
- greyman 8mo agoI 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.
- jadar 8mo agoI feel like this is a bit of a sinking ship. I suppose if you want to avoid known sources of slop then this works … but beyond that it’s a bit of a lost cause. It’s like sports betting — once it’s there then there’s no saying who is (ab)using it.
- duskdozer 7mo agoIt's not perfect, but in time my search results have gone from the first several pages being mostly garbage to mostly all good. Sure, new spam sites crop up every few days, but it's a quick block.
- lkm0 8mo agoWhy is apnews.com on the list?
- dgares 8mo agoIt seems to have been added as part of a commit[1] pulling from an SEO company's internal inventory document. [1] https://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist/commit/f6ee8d761d0cd30b75608acc4572fc3cf8d9aa82 https://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist/commit/f6ee8d...
- rishabhaiover 8mo agoAI-generated content vs human-generated content is merging as such a fast pace that such a list doesn't seem like a scalable general solution
- giancarlostoro 8mo agoI'm the weirdo who just closes websites with too many ads, and just mostly powers through the ads. If you have a sane setup for ads I will use your website. I'm tired of the years of adblock drama. Every time I come to these threads its completely different names for adblock plugins, it's like a rat race.
- dotancohen 8mo agoThe problem is that ads have often been vectors for malware.
- nottorp 8mo agoNot all, but blocking ads makes sites load 10x faster.
- zadikian 8mo agoI get this. uBO on Firefox has "just worked" for me for a long time with 0 configuration (I don't mess with the blacklists), but on phones it's a different game, and on Chrome, and before uBO there was other drama.