MEmetadat·Oct 27, 2022Submission
Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists
2 points · Open discussionpaulgb
BarbBlock
JavaScript2017–2022
paulgb / BarbBlock
BarbBlock
Chrome extension which blocks requests to sites which have used legal threats to remove themselves from other blacklists.
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Chrome extension which blocks requests to sites which have used legal threats to remove themselves from other blacklists.
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Observed mentions: 2017-08-12 13:23:03 UTC to 2022-10-27 14:54:04 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesThis is my article from 2017.
Here's a short update on what happened since then:
1. DMCA takedowns did not destroy ad blocking (thank god), but there were a couple more times when it was tried, nothing huge though.
2. Streisand effect is a thing and the domain in question was blocked by everyone and everywhere. There was even a special filter list and later a browser extension which only purpose was to block such domains. It got some traction but later got abandoned: https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock. If something like that happens again I am pretty sure it can be revived very quickly.
3. The corporations still try different angles to prohibit ad blocking. The last example I know about is something like this: Axel Springer claimed that the web page and all its content (including subrequest) and ads is subject to copyright law. So when y
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ou modify the web page with adding new styles or blocking a web request you violate the copyright.
Thanks for the report, I'll look into it (https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock/issues/16)
In Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklistsThanks, will do (https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock/issues/15)
In Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklistsTo be honest? Because I was on a plane without internet, and I didn't know how to create a blacklist but I had another extension I'd created to use as reference :)
I'm not opposed to doing both, once I have an hour to sit down and figure out what is actually involved. There's an issue to track it here: https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock/issues/5
In Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklistsShow HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists
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