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statics.streamable.com #111

Closed TheNoobWar closed 4 years ago

TheNoobWar commented 4 years ago

statics.streamable.com is a false-positive. It will not display streamable.com webpage, a low-bloat video hosting platform.

spirillen commented 4 years ago

streamable.com is no more than google/youtube, we try to simulate we are serving videos, but in reality we are trackware....

PureFallen commented 4 years ago

statics.streamable.com is a bit tricky. While it is possible to watch shared videos submitted over streamable.com when the domain is blacklisted, the website itself seems to be delivered from statics.streamable.com, including the actual UI around the video and the ability to upload new ones. While @spirillen ´s concern is completely reasonable, the whole situation puts us on the conflict of either:

What speaks for keeping it in the blacklist is, that most people will use streamable as viewer, not as uploader. What speaks against it is, that a good blacklist should not handycap the user´s ability to use the website or cut features. At this point it is probably @anudeepND ´s decision.

spirillen commented 4 years ago

What speaks against it is, that a good blacklist should not handycap the user´s ability to use the website or cut features

I would defiantly like to dispute that :smile:

A god blacklist should protect users against this, even if the webdesigner have broken the frontend by adding spyware tp the site. https://www.mypdns.org/source/Matrix/browse/master/README.md$39

PureFallen commented 4 years ago

A god blacklist should protect users against this, even if the webdesigner have broken the frontend by adding spyware tp the site. https://www.mypdns.org/source/Matrix/browse/master/README.md$39

If we would go with that approach, we would probably need to go ahead and wildcard several Google Websites as well. Yes - it would probably be the better approach to not use them in first place, but that doesn't prevent others from doing so. That problems is especially big when it comes to Facebook Services like Instagram or WhatsApp... I don't really care about the Website UI, more of the Upload Functionality that is affected by that block. Not that streamable.com gonna complain at some point. Anyway, i don't know myself if it should be blocked or not. Dropped my 2 cents and the context i have, at the end it's not in my power to decide that.

liamengland1 commented 4 years ago

What did we write in the previous answer? Are you stupid? (https://www.mypdns.org/source/Matrix/browse/master/README.md$39)

@spirillen feel free to email every website here and tell them that they are stupid. https://publicwww.com/websites/%22googleapis.com%22/ I'm sure they will appreciate it. Like it or not, millions or websites use third-party assets for convenience and speed. Calling them stupid isn't helping.

spirillen commented 4 years ago

Hey @PureFallen Thanks for your point and good tone to the debate and argumentation :+1:

anudeepND commented 4 years ago

@TheNoobWar can you please provide me some screenshots? Does the video playback works fine? streamable.com is blocked by my ISP :(