[GH-ISSUE #40] Why block huggingface.co? #26

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saavagebueno · 2026-08-06T02:12:47-04:00

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Originally created by @havardox on GitHub (Jun 4, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/issues/40

I'm a programmer and this site is defintely not spam. It's one of the largest sources of machine learning models out there. Akin to blocking stackoverflow.com if you program in ML

Originally created by @havardox on GitHub (Jun 4, 2024). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/issues/40 I'm a programmer and this site is defintely not spam. It's one of the largest sources of machine learning models out there. Akin to blocking stackoverflow.com if you program in ML

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@laylavish commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):

Huggingface is an AI-centric platform that hosts Stable Diffusion checkpoints and loras, quantized llm models, and other ML models. They also host AI generated imagery on there, of which appears in image search engines. This is a blacklist meant to remove AI generated content from searches. Why wouldn't I put huggingface on this list?

This is a list, and it's customizable. If you want to clear huggingface, there's no harm in just whitelisting it.

@laylavish commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024): Huggingface is an AI-centric platform that hosts Stable Diffusion checkpoints and loras, quantized llm models, and other ML models. They also host AI generated imagery on there, of which appears in image search engines. This is a blacklist meant to remove AI generated content from searches. Why wouldn't I put huggingface on this list? This is a list, and it's customizable. If you want to clear huggingface, there's no harm in just whitelisting it.

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@havardox commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024):

I guess I don't exactly understand why huggingface.co hosting AI generated imagery would warrant blocking it entirely. I understand blocking SEO blogspam and the likes as it would be very unlikely to be of interest to a person, but huggingface.co still hosts a ton of useful content, including machine learning models, datasets, library documentation, ML guides (that a person might use to learn) and other stuff

A person can just whitelist and move on with their merry way; that's true. It's just a little unexpected. I myself was a bit befuddled as to why I couldn't get any huggingface results on Google until I realized this was included in the blacklist I just installed

@havardox commented on GitHub (Jun 7, 2024): I guess I don't exactly understand why huggingface.co hosting AI generated imagery would warrant blocking it entirely. I understand blocking SEO blogspam and the likes as it would be _very_ unlikely to be of interest to a person, but huggingface.co still hosts a ton of useful content, including machine learning models, datasets, library documentation, ML guides (that a person might use to learn) and other stuff A person can just whitelist and move on with their merry way; that's true. It's just a little unexpected. I myself was a bit befuddled as to why I couldn't get any huggingface results on Google until I realized this was included in the blacklist I just installed

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@Void-025 commented on GitHub (Mar 28, 2025):

I came across this issue after noticing that the documentation I was looking for was mysteriously being wiped from my search results, found the explanation given a bit questionable but did as suggested and just whitelisted huggingface. Literally minutes later I find that mistral's website is also blocked. I have to assume that others are too, which makes this filter unusable for me as I don't want to end up spending hours sometime down the line looking for something which I don't realise is blocked.

It may be my fault for misunderstanding what the point of this filter list is, but I'd assumed it was to clean search results of AI-generated spam. Given the fact that neither mistral nor huggingface pollute search results (as far as I'm aware anyway) and are still blocked, it seems like maybe the purpose of this filter list is to prevent the user from ever seeing any mentions of AI at all? If it is, this should probably be explained more clearly to avoid others making the same mistake as I did.
Otherwise, I would recommend moving these sites to the nuclear list.

@Void-025 commented on GitHub (Mar 28, 2025): I came across this issue after noticing that the documentation I was looking for was mysteriously being wiped from my search results, found the explanation given a bit questionable but did as suggested and just whitelisted huggingface. Literally minutes later I find that mistral's website is also blocked. I have to assume that others are too, which makes this filter unusable for me as I don't want to end up spending hours sometime down the line looking for something which I don't realise is blocked. It may be my fault for misunderstanding what the point of this filter list is, but I'd assumed it was to clean search results of AI-generated spam. Given the fact that neither mistral nor huggingface pollute search results (as far as I'm aware anyway) and are still blocked, it seems like maybe the purpose of this filter list is to prevent the user from ever seeing any mentions of AI at all? If it is, this should probably be explained more clearly to avoid others making the same mistake as I did. Otherwise, I would recommend moving these sites to the nuclear list.

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