Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive
Ug, I&#x27;ve been railing against this for a bit now. For anyone who is unclear what is happening, Chrome downloads a set of partial hashes for sites that are considered bad by this coalition. They don&#x27;t provide the full list of sites (evil). Then if the site matches it, it phones home to get the full hash to see if it matches that. If it does, it applies the EasyList (non-cosmetic) ad block rules.<p>Problems:<p>* The list is totally opaque (I am wrong, see EDIT 2 below)<p>* They use the hard work of people like EasyList and subjectively apply it (though not that big of a deal, they do make it free&#x2F;open for all uses after all)<p>* They build it into the browser instead of as an extension or working with the existing ad-block community<p>I urge everyone to keep with uBO and the like. How anyone can be for NN and then think a coalition can be an on-by-default gatekeeper of good or bad web items I&#x27;ll never understand. At this point, I have a hard time separating browser from ISP wrt end user control and limited choice (especially for the masses who aren&#x27;t familiar w&#x2F; these kinds of details).<p>EDIT: I should note that this is the same mechanism by which the safe browsing lists work that tell you a page may be bad. For consistency, I disagree with that too of course, but I find the motives and targets here to be much more sinister. I would also say switch to FF, but they also use the secret safe browsing lists, so they&#x27;ll probably switch to this as well. I say find a Chromium&#x2F;Gecko based browser w&#x2F; all the ancillary shit like this removed.<p>EDIT 2: There is a method of obtaining the entire list via the API, see comments below. I was wrong about the opacity and stand corrected. Still doesn&#x27;t alleviate the concerns around gatekeeping. I wonder if Google would let me keep a running update of this list in GitHub so we can all watch changes and other things like adblockers could use it.