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A comment on ‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list. Parent comment

Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl... by cat199 on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:52PM (#20595053)
why should an e-commerce focused site do anything at all to avoid the term 'advert' in the first place? anyone there is ostensibly interested in commerce/advertising..

list maintainers should be responsible regression test their lists for normal content and not do dumb things

this is also a problem with bad/unscrupulous spam listings which list domains based on unsubstantiated requests, etc

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Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl... by Nextgrid on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:41PM (#20596885)
You can choose to buy things online without being exposed to the cancer that is advertising.

I am against advertising and marketing and yet spend a considerable amount of money online, and I’m confident most of HN does the same.

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