I 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.

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well_ackshually 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> but this is not how a public blacklist should be maintained.

Cry about it.

There's nothing in that repo that even pretends to be flawless, impartial or anything else. The sheer amount of mental denial of service that having to deal with SEO slopshitters opening issues saying that they promise their substance is totally written by hand makes this an impossible task.

Ban first, ask questions later. If you find that some rules are unfair, edit them yourself, for your personal usage.

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TonyTrapp 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yuuup. 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.

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jorvi 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Go 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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VladVladikoff 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Perhaps 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 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The 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.

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DrammBA 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You forgot:

> A personal list for uBlock Origin

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the_biot 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would add that with this attitude and how new this initiative is, there's very little chance it will still be updated 5 years from now. Really this sort of thing needs to come from Easylist or similar, who have a track record of maintaining these for years.

	▲	Larrikin an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't understand the need for the author to commit the rest of his life to this or start a foundation. It is a good list for now and if its never updated again, that seems fine.

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Drupon 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably because there's about the same chance of them being innocent as the "Help I was wrongfully banned by VAC :(((" posts in the Counterstrike community.

	▲	matheusmoreira an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Reminder that false positives are not only possible but likely. I remember one instance where you could get people banned by sending them a specific string of characters over chat. Anticheat was scanning the entire contents of RAM looking for it. These days anticheat software is likely to snap at anything. Who knows what they think of the development tools Hacker News users are likely to have on their computers? They really hate virtual machines for example. There's no telling how they'd react to a debugger or profiler.

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NeutralCrane 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also seems a bit hypocritical given the screed about how such a list is necessary because the AI content might output hallucinations or damaging content without review.

But if it’s the author’s blocklist that is wrong, unverified, and causing harm to others? Cry about it.