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That's what it was doing, basically. It was quietly making API calls to retrieve its secret censor list from a server its dev had. It went undetected until someone (db0?) went poking around and mimicked those API calls to get a copy of what exactly it was retrieving.
Nope it was doing both. There were multiple types of block lists in the source code and then there was and additional API call to get even more up to date user block lists. Since the API call was to a block list he personally maintained it's just hard coding with more steps.