With all the noise on lemmy, spam, and political content I have no interest in, the thought occurred to have blocklists similar to adblock lists. Has anyone looked into this before, is it already a thing? Any thoughts on that?

  • notfromhere@lemmy.oneOP
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    1 year ago

    Yea some way to automatically update community maintained block lists. Intent would be to share work done by individuals to benefit everyone.

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      1 year ago

      Ok, cool. I’ll add something like that to my roadmap. I’ll leave the sharing part up to the users, but I don’t think it should be hard to export/import a block list from a text file.

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        1 year ago

        What about a way to check for updates to the blocklist from a URL, e.g. a file on github.

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          1 year ago

          Doable, but the problem lies in distributing the Github link to pull / check.

          If I hard code it, that wouldn’t work for a lot of people (different people block for different reasons, etc). If it’s a user option, you’d have to put the GitHub link in on every device (user settings are only saved locally).

          Best case would be an option to either upload a JSON file or enter a URL to pull a JSON file.