DuckDuckGo has blocked Kiwi Farms

[Kiislova]

@Null I noticed a while ago that qutebrowser blocks kiwifarms. Turns out we're on this blacklist.

StevenBlack/hosts

Consolidating and Extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. You can optionally pick extensions to block Porn, Social Media, and other categories.. - StevenBlack/hosts

github.com

Possibly related?

It is on the list for alleged bitcoin mining/malware.

 

[AbbleDabble]

You know you could just at this point make your own search engine right?!
The IP space is there

He could host a searx instance, but why bother, some special friend will write a shitty script to constantly search for child porn and provide him some hassle from the feds/ruskie!feds.

 

[ZB 584]

The Kiwi Empire must be recognised as sovereign land.

 

[Baloney Face]

Another experiment.

Search for just "Kiwi", and Kiwi Farms is at the bottom of the first page of results.

For the time being, I say all is forgiven.

 

[kiwifarmsfan1]

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Just because New Zealand has a problem, doesn't mean that Verison/Oath is allowed to follow suit.

They ask that all antiboycott act activities be reported to Ethics and Compliance in their Standards of Business Conduct

"
Anti-boycott laws
United States companies are not permitted to participate in
international boycotts. If you receive a request to participate in
any international boycotts, you should report any such requests
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Antiboycott Laws:
During the mid-1970's the United States adopted two laws that seek to counteract the participation of U.S. citizens in other nation's economic boycotts or embargoes. These "antiboycott" laws are the 1977 amendments to the Export Administration Act (EAA) and the Ribicoff Amendment to the 1976 Tax Reform Act (TRA). While these laws share a common purpose, there are distinctions in their administration.

Objectives:

The antiboycott laws were adopted to encourage, and in specified cases, require U.S. firms to refuse to participate in foreign boycotts that the United States does not sanction. They have the effect of preventing U.S. firms from being used to implement foreign policies of other nations which run counter to U.S. policy.

 

[Rip_In_Pepperino]

You might want to contact Microsoft (which uses Convercent for its Web-based GRC portal) instead, because their Bing search engine is what Oath relies on; even so, I for one buy the story that they had accidentally flagged the Farms as spam, rather than de-indexing the site to join in a boycott by those other Kiwis.

As for Steven Black's combined HOSTS files, the one that includes the Farms was based on CoinBlockerList, which just yesterday removed that site and at least one other false positive (Fiverr) after Null himself complained. UPDATE: Steven Black just updated the HOSTS files, removing the entry blocking the Farms.

For real though, only an exceptional individual would consider malwaredomainlist.com a well-curated source.

I remember using MDL in my own HOSTS file many years ago, but I stopped using it because of all of the false positives.

 

[Somberver098]

It wouldn't hurt to make a PR there, but the underlying source of the data appears to be CoinBlockerList. Getting it removed from there would likely save more headaches down the road.

kiwifarms.net got removed from the blacklist in this commit

 

[The Anarki Main]

kiwifarms.net got removed from the blacklist in this commit

GG.