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by nerdponx 1771 days ago
Or someone quietly slipped it onto a block list knowing that it'd take a while to get noticed.
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If you're talking about the Green Party site, there is explanation at the bottom of the GitHub issue. It appears they were either compromised at some point in the past and used as a relay for spam ads or somebody with legitimate authority to edit the site abused their privileges and ran a spam ad operation on the side.

In either case, blocklistproject interprets spam ad vendors as damage and routes around them.

When I clicked the link (and when the link was posted), only the original comment was present: https://github.com/blocklistproject/Lists/issues/453#issue-9...