• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    He built it for his own use and didn’t care that his blocklist applied to everyone.

      • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        I’m curious about it’s overall usage statistics, but I guess the best metric - downloads of said banlist - is in their hands. I’ve seen people saying they’ve used it at some point, but I don’t think there were a lot of people. I’d go as far as to suspect that more people saw and reacted to recent news and memes about this frontend than used it at any point in time, total. My perspective as a mostly smartphone user is screwed though.

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      2 months ago

      He obfuscated the blocklist, and had it pull the latest list from his own server at run time (so forks and local configuration would be less likely to work)

      He absolutely cared to push his blocklist to everyone