Overblocking of nimiq.com

[mar-v-in]

Since commit cf1f493, this list contains the nimiq.com domain. Blocking access to nimiq.com or cdn.nimiq.com will block web apps that make use of the nimiq network, a decentralized application network layer.

According to the description of cf1f493, it should block mining on onvid.pw/hdvid.tv. Maybe there is a different way to block the mining on those sites without blocking the whole nimiq network.

[hoshsadiq]

If you can provide all the domains your miner runs on, we may be able to add those to the list.

[hoshsadiq]

I love this! I don't think you have bought enough domains to prevent your miner being blocked. This is the kind of BS that makes people use lists like this. You should be ashamed of yourself. Quite frankly this kind of behaviour makes me want to block everything related to your nimiq network.

Anyway, I've added all the domains I've found to this list. I'm still happy to take nimiq off the black list providing you can provide a honest full list of all the domains you guys use that your miner connects to.

[mar-v-in]

Happy new year.

As mentioned above, Nimiq is a decentralized application network.

The "miner" is only a small and not really important part of the network. If you want to block the "miner", block it, but don't block the rest of the network. That's like blocking access to Google and all Google services when you only wanted to block the tracking through Google Analytics.

Also the number of hostnames/domains you can see can be easily explained by the term "decentralized": Everyone can set up a server and add it to the network without access control. Most of those have nothing to do with mining, nor are related to the developers of Nimiq. Because of this, it is obvious that neither me nor anyone else can provide a full list of nodes in the network as they change too fast to keep such a list up-to-date.

Also I am not sure what you are referring to when talking about the "miner". There is miner.nimiq.com, a standalone application, that genuinely and on request of the user does mining with the reward being 100% for the user. Blocking miner.nimiq.com obviously blocks the miner, but also renders the webapp completely useless, because that is it's only purpose. miner.nimiq.com can not be embedded by malicious third-party websites to earn funds for the website owner or without user consent.

I don't know what onvid.pw/hdvid.tv is and I am not related to that at all. If they provide a miner that mines without user consent, please block them. I am complaining about your filter list stopping some of the decentralized web apps that use the Nimiq network from functioning.

[hoshsadiq]

This isn't about onvid/hdvid. This list exists to block mining. The additional domains I've added are what I thought, to the best of my knowledge, were mining domains.

I understand it's a decentralised network, but the majority of domains that I found, on first impression, seem to be owned by the nimiq network.

I will take out the main domains and leave the domain that I think does the mining.