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by makepanic 3505 days ago
Looks like it's currently using a hard coded list of urls that are considered to be bad.

For general requests: https://github.com/jacquerie/stop-the-bullshit/blob/master/s...

For facebook: https://github.com/jacquerie/stop-the-bullshit/blob/master/s...

2 comments

Yeah, it's just some arbitrary list of a few hardcoded URLs right now... Is this really useful??
Consider that I built it this night for http://lauzhack.com/, so it's not intended to be a fully-featured solution to the problem.

The main issue I wanted to address is the fact that such a blocker must be widely installed to be useful. Therefore, the Facebook message is intended to prod current users of the extensions to ask that their friends install it as well.

I'm amused that long-running British newspaper the Daily Star has made the list. I mean, it's probably accurate as they do have a bit of a reputation, but still - surprising.