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0 pointsretpirato5y ago0 comments

So Google somehow knows which apps block certain instances, which generally get reputation among other instances & are quickly blocked? That's not believable.

0 pointsretpirato5y ago0 comments

So Google somehow knows which apps block certain instances, which generally get reputation among other instances & are quickly blocked? That's not believable.

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jfarina5y ago· 3 in thread

Why isn't that believable?

retpiratoOP5y ago

How does Google know this unless they have some access to the databases of each of those sites/instances? Why would google have that kind of access?

fuzxi5y ago

Such apps tend to advertise that they block instances. Tusky, for example, blocks all Gab instances and says so right in the FAQ [1].

[1]: https://github.com/tuskyapp/faq bottom of the page

saghm5y ago

Couldn't this get done as part of the manual review of an app's source code? It seems like this wouldn't necessarily have to be automated

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avivo5y ago

I currently think this may be exactly what is happening. If I'm wrong, I'd love to know about that!

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