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  1. According to internal discussions, EasyList has applied for the Claude for Open Source Program. At present, it is unclear how they intend to use Claude. It is also not known if EasyList maintainer Ryan Brown consulted with other members of the EasyList team.

    The Claude for Open Source Program is a program by AI company Anthropic which offers 6 months of free Claude Max to qualifying open source maintainers.
    Repositories must have 5,000+ GitHub stars and activity within the last three months, though exceptions can be granted. EasyList has 2900 stars on GitHub.

    claude.com/contact-sales/claud

    According to those same internal discussions, AdGuard is either considering it or has already submitted their application. The AdguardFilters repository has 4200 stars on GitHub.

    The use of AI in open source projects is not uncontroversial, with projects sometimes facing pushback from the community.

    #EasyList #FilterlistUpdate #AI #ClaudeForOpenSourceProgram #Claude

  2. Version 144.0.7559.109.0 of GrapheneOS's Vanadium browser includes two updates relevant to content filtering:

    • now, Nordic EasyList is enabled for "Danish, Finnish, Icelandic and Swedish rather than only Norwegian [...] and Greenlandic"
    • this update adds the EasyList Adblock Warning Removal List

    github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium

    #EasyList #GrapheneOS #FilterlistUpdate

  3. uBlock Origin 1.69.0 has been released.

    github.com/gorhill/uBlock/rele

    This update adds a variety of new features, including EasyList's Anti-AI Suggestions list. This new list would be found in the annoyances section, under the dropdown of "EasyList annoyances".

    github.com/gorhill/uBlock/comm

    The update can not be installed in Chrome or Firefox yet, as it is still pending review.

    #EasyList #uBlockOrigin #FilterlistUpdate #AI

  4. Adblockers blocking anonymous telemetry: @mo8it wrote a blog article on the experience of using #OxiTraffic for privacy preserving telemetry and how this still ended up with my site being featured on #EasyList, a default blocklist of #uBlockOrigin

    I don't have a good solution here but I am pretty sure there is a problem

    https://mo8it.com/blog/privacy/

  5. This really breaks my heart 😭

    github.com/easylist/easylist/i

    I spent so much time polishing just for it to be blocked by an AdBlocker 🚫

    I developed it in the first place to protect !
    I don't collect any personal data or anything that can help identifying a user on the web.
    No IP, no cookies, no User-Agent… How is this bad for privacy?

    It is fully free and open source, you can just read the commented blocked script.