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Re:Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted altern... by seanwilson on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:50PM (#26884883)
> Open sourcing it would be hard, because you'd have to trust everyone else to classify things correctly, or you'd have to review every input yourself.

There's not a way you could choose which people/groups you trust (and don't) to classify spam correctly? Don't open source adblockers work like this?

Re:Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted altern... by lrem on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:23PM (#26893518)
Don't they use some reasonably reviewable methods, like regular expressions? And, more importantly, reviewable volumes? Also, an ad blocker can always have a debug mode, where it can show you a rule that removed the element.

With ad blocking you have none of that. Gigabytes of text go into training, kilobytes of inscrutable numbers go out. And all the debug info you get is how certain the computer sounded saying no.