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Well, the "ads" are coming from your follow's relays. If you don't want that, stop following them. They are the ones allowing the attack by choosing relays that don't protect against it.

Amethyst doesn't randomly download things from each relay. For each follow's relay, it filter to only download content relative to that follow from that relay. So, strictly speaking, your follows want you to see that ad.

Sattrio 1w ago

And therein lies my problem... "Your follows want you to see that ad". My follows currently have more control over what I see than I do. All they need to do, to force my client to download junk from any relay against my will, is to add it to their list (whether their intention is good or not). That puts me in the situation where I have to play whackamole with spam every time I follow a new person or one of my follows adds a fringe relay.

I'm not making things up to be upset about... 😅 The new setup makes it impossible to protect myself from CP ads by default, and the old way did not have this problem. Every day on the # asknostr hashtag I see multiple CP spam ads, and I have no recourse but to find out what relays they are posted to and manually block them after the fact.

I fully understand the mechanism, and why you have chosen to take this route. That's perfectly acceptable as it's your choice and what works for a lot of people. That is why I phrased my question as "could this be an option?", for those who the other way worked better for. 🧡

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Vitor Pamplona 1w ago

What's a CP spam ads? Can't you block the user or hide by keywords?

Ryan 1w ago

They change to new users & change message text from time to time. It's on major relays too damus & primal. It's pretty hard to avoid the hashtag spam. When I follow asknostr it pops back up every so often, even blocking users and using mute words.

Vitor Pamplona 1w ago

No common keyword for the hidden words feature?

Ryan 1w ago

I've hidden a few like "young teen", "rare unseen young" for example. But they change from time to time, or new ones from different posters start posting.

Making new text is trivial now with AI, so word blocking is just an endless game. And if you just start blocking single common words you'll end up missing valid notes that get caught by the filter.

Hopefully wot can fix this somehow. Most users aren't going to hunt in the settings to make the CP posts go away. They'll just not use the app I fear.