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<blockquote data-quote="Windows_Security" data-source="post: 812417" data-attributes="member: 50782">Websites like w3techs.com collects data about top 10 million websites. Trends.buildwith.com collects data about the 1 million most popular websites. This data clearly shows it is not about the website but the infrastructure those websites use. Just look for example at the image (<a href="https://trends.builtwith.com/analytics" target="_blank">source</a>).&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]213056[/ATTACH]It is a long tail curve: two companies facilitate 47% (source trends.buildwith) of the most popular websites, the top 10 serves 80% and the top 200 serves 90% (source W3techs) of the 10 million most popular websites. Easylist ads &amp; privacy over 100.000 rules probably block 95% of the top 10 million websites. According to <a href="https://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/" target="_blank">internetlivestats.com </a> there are over 1.5 billion websites.&nbsp; This means that even with a blocklist of half a million rules, your adblocker will probably miss an advertisement every now and then. For CAN+US+UK+EUR region a blocklist of 200 will probably be 90% as effective as a blocklist of 100K rules. For me the cut-off point is around 3000 (approxiatematly the number of rules used by Ghostery, Disconnect, Trace extensions and for instance Peter&#039;s Low list).&nbsp; But mileage may differ as are people&#039;s preferences.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Windows_Security, post: 812417, member: 50782"] Websites like w3techs.com collects data about top 10 million websites. Trends.buildwith.com collects data about the 1 million most popular websites. This data clearly shows it is not about the website but the infrastructure those websites use. Just look for example at the image ([URL='https://trends.builtwith.com/analytics']source[/URL]). [ATTACH type="full" alt="213056"]213056[/ATTACH] It is a long tail curve: two companies facilitate 47% (source trends.buildwith) of the most popular websites, the top 10 serves 80% and the top 200 serves 90% (source W3techs) of the 10 million most popular websites. Easylist ads & privacy over 100.000 rules probably block 95% of the top 10 million websites. According to [URL='https://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/']internetlivestats.com [/URL] there are over 1.5 billion websites. This means that even with a blocklist of half a million rules, your adblocker will probably miss an advertisement every now and then. For CAN+US+UK+EUR region a blocklist of 200 will probably be 90% as effective as a blocklist of 100K rules. For me the cut-off point is around 3000 (approxiatematly the number of rules used by Ghostery, Disconnect, Trace extensions and for instance Peter's Low list). But mileage may differ as are people's preferences. [/QUOTE]

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