i started creating my own list and found there are some missing in your list as well. but i didn’t filtered by wiki/github copycats, so maybe there are not 100% stackoverflow copycats.

Another category of copycat sites that I find maddening are Wikipedia clones. Wikipedia is freely licensed and even allows database dumps, so there are a ton of annoying mirrors out there. These sites can show up in search results for just about any topic. Here are a few:

*://www.wikiwand.com/*
*://wiki2.org/*
*://worddisk.com/wiki/*
*://thereaderwiki.com/*
*://www.absoluteastronomy.com/*
*://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/*
*://peoplepill.com/*
*://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/*.wikipedia

You can see that these are clones from the following links:

• https://www.wikiwand.com/
• https://wiki2.org/
• https://worddisk.com/wiki/search/
• https://thereaderwiki.com/en/
• http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/ (just click any link and scroll to the bottom to see the attribution)
• https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/
• https://peoplepill.com/ (just click any link and scroll to the bottom to see the attribution)
• https://www.algebra.com/algebra/about/history/Main_Page.wikipedia

There are a lot more copycats out there (Wikipedia maintains a giant list, but it includes many sites that have just copied a small amount of content and not the entire site, and I'm sure there are some dead/outdated entries as well), but I figured I'd just post a few to start.

Hello.

Is it fine to add URLs from another list (with evidences)?

For example - will it be OK to submit a block request issue based on https://github.com/vladgba/Back2source/blob/master/back2source.user.js content (if I will provide evidence for each site in this list)?

I don't see any license requirements from the origin of this list, but how about you?

Thank you.

All sites:

• https://bikehike.org/what-muscles-does-cycling-tone/
• https://allfamousbirthday.com/faqs/does-cycling-give-you-a-big-bum/
• https://iron-set.com/us/how-do-you-build-your-outer-thigh-muscle/
• https://wikipedikia.org/is-20-minutes-of-cycling-a-day-enough/

Original: https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2018/06/21/embracing-strong-legs-how-cycling-does-doesnt-change-a-womans-body/

Evidence: https://tutorialmeta.com/question/bookmarklet-containing-a-button Original: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50040152/bookmarklet-containing-a-button

Doesn't seem like this site has fully copied SOF yet, as the domain is probably very new, this year. Here's a funny, at the bottom of each page: "© 2022 All rights reserved"

Hello @quenhus,

I am the maintainer of https://letsblock.it, a uBlock Origin list generator that allows users to pick and customize filter templates to filter out low-value content. The most requested feature so far is to extend the hide websites from search results template with presets to hide Github and Stackoverflow copycats. Instead of duplicating work, I'd love to reuse the data from your project and import it as user-selectable presets.

I am currently working on the implementation PR: https://github.com/xvello/letsblockit/pull/64 and will deploy a staging version when the frontend is ready. I'd love to have your input on it, whether that's questions, ideas or concerns.

The Python script uses ||example.com$all, which seems to blocking any domain containing example.com. In my opinion, this syntax is better:

||example.com^$all

This is the syntax used in uBo’s own filter lists (example) and many other filter lists for completely blocking a domain. Docs: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#static-network-filtering

Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_five-year_plan (revision unknown)

Evidence(*): https://paperzz.com/doc/7738264/first-five-year-plan--soviet-union-

Notice the image to the right and its caption. Fortunately it's unchanged in the original wikipedia article at the time of writing. Based on this, further URLs were discovered.

URLs:

Query term/needle: "One of the primary objectives of Stalin's First Five-Year Plan was to build up the country's heavy industry." DDG results:

• https://www.studymode.com/essays/Stalin-5-Year-Plan-1777540.html
• https://www.liquisearch.com/first_five-year_plan_soviet_union
• https://paperzz.com/doc/7738264/first-five-year-plan--soviet-union-
• https://edufrogs.com/stalin-5-year-plan-essay/
• https://patrickkidd3.typepad.com/blog/food-and-drink/ (** obvious SEO spam)
• http://josehist.weebly.com/industrialization-5-year-plans-1928-1941.html (** any link on this page yields a redirect suggestion)

Query term/needle: "The First Five-Year Plan, or 1st Five-Year Plan, of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals," DDG results:

• https://www.primidi.com/first_five-year_plan_soviet_union

Query term/needle: "The First Five-Year Plan, or 1st Five-Year Plan, of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, created by Joseph Stalin and based off his policy of Socialism in One Country, that was designed to strengthen the country's economy between 1928 and 1932." Google results:

• https://wn.com/First_Five-Year_Plan
• https://actingcollegeses.com/library/acting-questions/read/61685-what-did-lil-wayne-mean-by-lasagna (** SEO spam)

I don't want to keep useless block rules in the filter. I created a tool to help detect domains that are down (/src/clean_data/main.py).

If anyone want to help me with that :D

I think we can remove domains without A/AAAA DNS response. However it would be great to use a Google "site:DOMAIN linux" to determine whether each domain is still used as a mirror. Don't forget to disable uBlock-Origin-dev-filter while doing so, otherwise you will only get empty responses.

Evidence: https://www.javaallin.com/code/write-avro-files-with-logicaltype-timestamp-millis-on-date-timestamps-in-java.html Original: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62696580/write-avro-files-with-logicaltype-timestamp-millis-on-date-timestamps-in-java

Please block many mirrors

Evidences: https://gitfreak.com/skyra-project https://cnpmjs.org/package/@aero/klasa/v/0.5.0-rc1 https://npmmirror.com/package/@aero/klasa Original: github npmjs

Evidence: https://9to5science.com/latex-warning-citation-undefined
Original: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/168312/latex-warning-citation-undefined

Evidence: https://tagmerge.com/question/rebase-failed-cannot-merge-binary-files-monopolee-xlsx

Original: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71813809/rebase-failed-cannot-merge-binary-files-monopolee-xlsx/71855238#71855238

This was originally filed in BMO as Bug 1801597 - Typing jank on google.com search field with adblocking filter "uBlock-Origin-dev-filter – All Search Engines – Global". uBO author gorhill suggested that I should report to you instead (extra info with some pointers here and here)

I copy the my BMO report here:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0 Build ID: 20221120214001

Steps to Reproduce

1. In a new profile, install uBlock Origin (currently 1.45.2).
2. Subscribe uBlock-Origin-dev-filter – All Search Engines – Global(AG). (Or use this permalink url)
3. Go to https://www.google.com/search?q=f. (So it skips the seemingly unaffected search field at google.com homepage.)
4. Press and hold a key to type rapidly into google.com search field. Adding some spaces inbetween seems to make the issue worse.

Expected Results

Typing should be smooth and there should be little janks in performance profiles.

Actual Results

There are some janks/slowness as shown in the attached video and profiles (attached in section Screenshot). The situation, however, is much worse in my main profile. I can see the jank even if I type a search phrase normally.

Additional Notes

This issue seems to be related to google.com's autocomplete feature. If I make an extremely long search phrase, autocomplete flyout will not be activiated and the jank is gone. The jank is back after clicking the X in the search field to clear the search phrase and type again. However, Google will temporarily suspend autocomplete (https://www.google.com/complete/search?q=* requests return 403) for an unknown period of time (few hours max?) if I spam the autocomplete. I cannot reproduce the jank when autocomplete is suspended. Changing IP address or set up a new profile may lift the suspension.

System configuration

OS version: Windows 10 64bit 22H2 19045.2251 GPU model: Nvidia GTX 760 driver 473.81 (Aug 02, 2022) Number of cores: i7-4771 4 cores 8 threads Amount of memory (RAM): 16GB SSD drive Tested uBO versions: 1.45.3b7, 1.45.2, 1.35.2 (earliest version available in AMO) Tested Firefox versions: Nightly 2022-11-23, 2022-11-20, Firefox 107

Performance profiles

Captured in Firefox 107, new profile, uBO 1.45.3b7 with AG: https://share.firefox.dev/3Eug06G Disabling AG: https://share.firefox.dev/3hY0ZSX

Video demonstrations of the issue

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/771216/203749338-8fbdf4cb-8be9-4aee-91f3-2e16fc18b2f4.mp4

Performance recording (profile)

Profile URL: These are the profiles as shown in the above video in a new Nightly profile with uBO 1.45.2: 1st [0:01 - 0:06], AG enabled: https://share.firefox.dev/3UYMj4H 2nd [0:18 - 0:21], reload google.com and try again: https://share.firefox.dev/3gnyUUS 3rd [0:37 - 0:42], AG disabled. No janks: https://share.firefox.dev/3V3ZuB4 4th [0:59 - 1:04], AG re-enabled. Janks again: https://share.firefox.dev/3V88ZyY 5th (not shown in the video), Accessibility is force-disabled to eliminate bug 1800028: https://share.firefox.dev/3Gu6HX7

about:support of this profile: uBO dev filter about support.txt

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/771216/203750719-032083d7-b893-40ec-a2cc-ac1c3bd78db3.mp4

The jank is much more noticeable in my main profile. Granted there should are other factors causing the jank, but disabling AG vastly improves the jank to an acceptable level.

Profile captured during the video; AG enabled: https://share.firefox.dev/3ENTdUH AG disabled (captured at a much later time and browser restarted, PIDs had changed): https://share.firefox.dev/3Aw8WWa

[main profile] about support.txt

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/771216/203756860-64705082-4e52-4ec7-bf84-c28e379c2eb4.mp4

I can still reproduce the jank with a modern gaming laptop using (essentially) the same profile as my main profile.

The laptop was plugged in with a high performance power profile. iGPU was used in the video but dGPU had the jank too.

Profile URLs: 1st, AG enabled: https://share.firefox.dev/3ErP8Es 2nd, AG disabled: https://share.firefox.dev/3U2qqQU 3rd, AG re-enabled: https://share.firefox.dev/3GDDvwZ

During the 3rd profile the jank was gone when autocompletes returned 400 (not 403) if the search phrase was too long.

Thank you.