[HN Gopher] UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist
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UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist
Author : _____k
Score : 67 points
Date : 2025-12-25 20:14 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| HelloUsername wrote:
| Previous discussion:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771742
| canyp wrote:
| Interesting that the previous post was flagged. You may or may
| not find the list useful, but flag? Did it hurt some
| sensitivities?
| haupt wrote:
| It's a so-called hot-button topic and unfortunately HN isn't
| quite the paragon of pragmatic technical discussion that it
| was in the past. C'est la vie.
| teruakohatu wrote:
| It is an unusual list. Along with a list an AI websites it also
| blocks a handful of instagram, X and Pinterest profiles. It also
| blocks a number of specific products on Amazon, such as a
| colouring book that presumably was generated with AI.
|
| This kind of reminds me Steam where indie devs need to exclaim
| loudly that they are not using AI, otherwise they face backlash.
| Meanwhile a significant percentage of devs are using GenAI for
| better tab completion, better search or generating tests. All
| things that do not impact the end user experience negatively.
| ares623 wrote:
| I think the backlash comes from all the "AI-driven" layoffs
| that absolutely impact the end users negatively.
| dexwiz wrote:
| I think AI as a tool versus AI as a product are different. Even
| in coding you can see it with tab completion/agents v vibe
| coding. It's a spectrum and people are trying to find their
| personal divider on it. Additionally there are those out there
| that decry anything involving AI as heresy. (no thinking
| machines!)
| latexr wrote:
| > Additionally there are those out there that decry anything
| involving AI as heresy. (no thinking machines!)
|
| I don't think anyone decrying the current crop of "AI" is
| against "thinking machines". We're not there yet, LLMs don't
| _think_ , despite the marketing.
| WA wrote:
| And they don't reason. They do _prompt smoothing_.
| lpcvoid wrote:
| Devs also shouldn't be using GenAI, it's inherently anti-worker
| and IMHO also anti-human. But I guess that's an unpopular
| opinion around here.
| snet0 wrote:
| If a "C+++" was created that was so efficient that it would
| allow teams to be smaller and achieve the same work faster,
| would that be anti-worker?
|
| If an IDE had powerful, effective hotkeys and shortcuts and
| refactoring tools that allowed devs to be faster and more
| efficient, would that be anti-worker?
| lpcvoid wrote:
| What part of c++ is inefficient? I can write that pretty
| quickly without having some cloud service hallucinate
| stuff.
|
| And no, a faster way to write or refactor code is not anti-
| worker. Corporations gobbling up tax payer money to build
| power hungry datacenters so billionaires can replace
| workers is.
| bdangubic wrote:
| what about cars? they are anti-horses... can we use
| cars/buses/trains... or nah?
| halyconWays wrote:
| Given the political comments in what's supposed to be a filter,
| and how everything is prefaced with "shit" like "Pinterest
| shit," I bet the author had a personal political disagreement
| with those accounts.
|
| The list is also too specific to be useful in some cases, like,
| is it really important to you that you add 12 entries for
| specific Amazon products, like: `
| duckduckgo.com,bing.com##a[href*="amazon.com/Rabbit-Coloring-
| Book-Rabbits-Lovers/dp/B0CV43GKGZ"]:upward(li):remove()`?
| SkyeCA wrote:
| Why did the original get flagged?
|
| Edit: On a second look the list is kind of weird. I'd love to
| block AI stuff but the blocklist is far, far too broad.
| elcapitan wrote:
| Yeah I hoped it would blacklist all those spammy autogenerated
| SEO sites from search results, but it looks like a vendetta
| with anything AI or machine learning in general.
| mmooss wrote:
| The reactionary response against the new technology, even on HN,
| is pretty strong. If I ran an AI developer, I'd take it as a
| signal that I'm doing something right - people see how powerful
| our product is, and they care about it. Hate and love aren't too
| different; we'll have many dedicated users who will have
| forgotten. First they laugh at you Then
| they tell you it violates the orthodoxy Then they think
| they knew it all along
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