# AI uBlock Blacklist

9 Hacker News commenters recommended AI uBlock Blacklist and 10 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for filtering low-quality content farms out of search results. Critics say it is poorly maintained, with no removal process and overly broad entries.

## Why people recommend it

- Cleaner search results overall (2 comments): "in time my search results have gone from the first several pages being mostly garbage to mostly all good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135681)) "A new more grounded list focused on specifically blocking content farms and similar low quality sites." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098583))
- Blocks ads and unwanted sites (2 comments): "I don't care how obvious an ad is, I don't want to see it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103017)) "when a page doesn't load, you know" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267606))

## What people warn about

- Poor maintenance and no removal process (4 comments): "this is not how a public blacklist should be maintained" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102378)) "This specific list from this specific author isn't worth using since they refuse to remove items from the list if domain ownership changes." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101575)) "with this attitude and how new this initiative is, there's very little chance it will still be updated 5 years from now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103183))
- Overly broad, blocks useful sites (4 comments): "Some of the sites on that list are stuff like chatgpt.com" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105131)) "The list is also too specific to be useful in some cases" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387469)) "The broad list seems to just be a hater list." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101423))
- Amateur or AI-generated maintainers (2 comments): "Feels very much like the pet project of a few wannabe activist teenagers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388023)) "repo was entirely AI generated" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102796))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [uBlock Origin YouTube Shorts filter list](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ublock-origin-youtube-shorts-filter-list.md): 20 recommend
- [Hagezi DNS blocklists](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hagezi-dns-blocklists.md): 9 recommend
- [StevenBlack hosts](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stevenblack-hosts.md): 7 recommend
- [EasyList](https://hackerapproved.com/p/easylist.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AI uBlock Blacklist", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ai-ublock-blacklist/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).