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paulgb / BarbBlock

Chrome extension which blocks requests to sites which have used legal threats to remove themselves from other blacklists.
https://ssl.bblck.me
MIT License
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Why is bblck.me listed as a badware site by uBlock Origin (uBO)? #41

Open Gitoffthelawn opened 1 year ago

Gitoffthelawn commented 1 year ago

Paul, do you or anyone else know why the uBlock Origin project has bblck.me listed as a "badware" site?

See:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/badware.txt

The responsible filter is:
||bblck.me^$all

This filter blocks all hosts on the bblck.me domain. The "badware risks" filter list is included and enabled by default with uBO.

I found this PR: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/pull/10235, which links to this issue: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2935. I also found this issue: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2864.

paulgb commented 1 year ago

I believe those PRs are referring to incorporating the BarbBlock blocklist into other lists, rather than blocklisting the list itself. However, I no longer control the bblck.me domain, so it's correct. Use the github pages URLs for the blocklist instead.

See also https://github.com/hectorm/hblock/issues/58

Gitoffthelawn commented 1 year ago

I believe those PRs are referring to incorporating the BarbBlock blocklist into other lists, rather than blocklisting the list itself. However, I no longer control the bblck.me domain, so it's correct. Use the github pages URLs for the blocklist instead.

See also hectorm/hblock#58

Thanks Paul. In that case, I think you'll definitely want to remove the link to ssl.bblck.me from https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock