nice. there’s a github repo that has it too, but seeing it directly from the source is a more honest, direct way to show people what is going on. the least hand-wavy way.
Edit: Acutally the link you posted is more stragithtforward than the GH one, showing the instructions on how to generate the list in the README.md. Very cool.
That’s a URL blacklist, not the username blacklist.
Dang, you’re right, and the user list is deliberately hidden. I tried posting the code to view it, but for some reason my comment was rejected. :(
edit:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asimons04/tesseract/master/static/data/policy.dat | base64 -d | gunzip | jq .
Currently shows 539 banned users and 2218 bannded user regexes.
https://codeberg.org/thethunderwolf/tesseract-blocklist-archive/src/branch/main/tesseract-shadow-policy-2026-07-24-19:50:UTC.json
Codeberg has the list
nice. there’s a github repo that has it too, but seeing it directly from the source is a more honest, direct way to show people what is going on. the least hand-wavy way.
Edit: Acutally the link you posted is more stragithtforward than the GH one, showing the instructions on how to generate the list in the README.md. Very cool.