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Kees1958 EU-US most used blocklist for uBlockOrigin and AdGuard
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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 92963" data-source="post: 959008"><p><strong>What are the major the differences between my Ad & Tracking list and EasyPrivacy?</strong></p><p></p><p>1. My list is suitable for people living in North America and European Union</p><p>2. My list also uses the input of questionnaires of most used web technology by W3C and online advertising industry itself.</p><p></p><p><strong>Why does 'EU-US most used' contain NO generic filters?</strong></p><p>1.Generic filters are often to generic causing false positives: they require overrides and exceptions, causing extra rules (and CPU cycles)</p><p>2.Generic filters are a blast from the past: the advertising industry uses other (easier to maintain) mechanisms (like URL parameters and pixel tracking).</p><p></p><p><strong>Why does 'EU-US most used' contain NO (cloacked) first party filters?</strong></p><p>1. Cloacked first party are third-party trackers looking like first-party via a (canonical) domain name mapping. This 'cname-record' trick to assign an alias is done at Domain Name System, therefor it can be much easier tackled/blocked at DNS-level.</p><p>2. First-party tracking through first party sub-domains is a moving target and</p><p>a) there is no defense against server side tracking when you log-in to a website you agree to data usage OR</p><p>b) when you don't log in, the website has to obey the privacy rules applicable (so your privacy is somehow protected by law) and simply knows enough (IP addres and browser fingerprinting) that it can identify returning visitors (without knowing it is you, until you sign up/log in).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>[SPOILER="Easy Privacy generic rules example "]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]260874[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>[SPOILER="Easy Privacy first party blocking example"]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]260873[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>In my opinion generic blocks and specific first party blocking are as useful as a shopkeeper putting a lot of effort holding his hands over a small crack in his shop window, while leaving his front door open and the cash checkout unattended. Using Next DNS (against cname cloacking) and AdGuard's (remove) URL paramater list offer far better coverage than the old fashioned first party (subdomains) and generic rules in EasyPrivacy.</p><p></p><p>Although this might seem like a rant against EasyPrivacy, it is not. The blocklists of Easylist are the best maintained lists available. Brave puts a lot of effort in them to remove stale (obsolete) rules and when you use the optimized version of AdGuard all exotic rules (rules which are scarcely or never used) are also removed. So please when you don't want to use my list, use AdGuard EasyPrivacy optimized version (<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.09160.pdf" target="_blank">link to Brave study showing 90% of easylist rules are nearly never used</a>)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 92963, post: 959008"] [B]What are the major the differences between my Ad & Tracking list and EasyPrivacy?[/B] 1. My list is suitable for people living in North America and European Union 2. My list also uses the input of questionnaires of most used web technology by W3C and online advertising industry itself. [B]Why does 'EU-US most used' contain NO generic filters?[/B] 1.Generic filters are often to generic causing false positives: they require overrides and exceptions, causing extra rules (and CPU cycles) 2.Generic filters are a blast from the past: the advertising industry uses other (easier to maintain) mechanisms (like URL parameters and pixel tracking). [B]Why does 'EU-US most used' contain NO (cloacked) first party filters?[/B] 1. Cloacked first party are third-party trackers looking like first-party via a (canonical) domain name mapping. This 'cname-record' trick to assign an alias is done at Domain Name System, therefor it can be much easier tackled/blocked at DNS-level. 2. First-party tracking through first party sub-domains is a moving target and a) there is no defense against server side tracking when you log-in to a website you agree to data usage OR b) when you don't log in, the website has to obey the privacy rules applicable (so your privacy is somehow protected by law) and simply knows enough (IP addres and browser fingerprinting) that it can identify returning visitors (without knowing it is you, until you sign up/log in). [SPOILER="Easy Privacy generic rules example "] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1632728597368.png"]260874[/ATTACH] [/SPOILER] [SPOILER="Easy Privacy first party blocking example"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1632727268547.png"]260873[/ATTACH] [/SPOILER] In my opinion generic blocks and specific first party blocking are as useful as a shopkeeper putting a lot of effort holding his hands over a small crack in his shop window, while leaving his front door open and the cash checkout unattended. Using Next DNS (against cname cloacking) and AdGuard's (remove) URL paramater list offer far better coverage than the old fashioned first party (subdomains) and generic rules in EasyPrivacy. Although this might seem like a rant against EasyPrivacy, it is not. The blocklists of Easylist are the best maintained lists available. Brave puts a lot of effort in them to remove stale (obsolete) rules and when you use the optimized version of AdGuard all exotic rules (rules which are scarcely or never used) are also removed. So please when you don't want to use my list, use AdGuard EasyPrivacy optimized version ([URL='https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.09160.pdf']link to Brave study showing 90% of easylist rules are nearly never used[/URL]) [/QUOTE]
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