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Re:Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuc... by ahelwer on Thursday February 17, 2022 @01:43PM (#30376918)
Looks great and much better than my piecemeal efforts, although I recommend linking to a specific commit of all.txt so you aren't opening up your browser's ublock origin filter list to arbitrary remote control. Like:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-...

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Re:Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuc... by Quenhus on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:22PM (#30377403)
As the author of the filter, I strongly agree with you. However, I believe it would be too tedious for most people to update the filter "by hand". I think I'm going to add this important security information in the README.
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Re:Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuc... by gruez on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:09AM (#30382340)
>so you aren't opening up your browser's ublock origin filter list to arbitrary remote control.

What's the worse that could happen? It seems like ublock is already to treat filter lists as semi-untrusted. There's not much it can do other than block stuff.

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Re:Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuc... by DavideNL on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:27PM (#30433242)
Exactly... "Dynamic filtering: precedence" : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-pr...
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