Ublock: Possibly new filter lists: "Blockzilla", "Czech List" and "Estonian filters by Gurud.ee"

Created on 11 Nov 2016  路  6Comments  路  Source: gorhill/uBlock

https://adblockplus.org/subscriptions lists seven subscriptions not included in the 3rd party filters section of uBlock Origin. Of these seven, I can find references to four in this repository along with an explanation of why you will not include it. The remaining three may be "new", so I have listed them below for (temporary) completeness.

Browser/version: Chromium 53.0.2785.143
uBlock Origin version: 1.9.16

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As of Blockzilla Version B20 ||connect.facebook.net^$third-party has been removed. As for the other filters mentioned, no issues have been reported however if issues arise I will whitelist or remove accordingly.

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I upvote Blockzilla 'unbloated and slim list' idea.

Blockzilla contains some critical filters like:

||connect.facebook.net^$third-party
||graph.facebook.com^$third-party
||pinterest.com^$third-party
||reddit.com^$third-party

Guaranteed to cause breakage. Many websites use for example Facebook Connect to provide an option for users to login using their Facebook account (not giving a judgement if that's a good or bad idea).

As of Blockzilla Version B20 ||connect.facebook.net^$third-party has been removed. As for the other filters mentioned, no issues have been reported however if issues arise I will whitelist or remove accordingly.

Adguard's Mobile Ads could be a good alternative. I just hope there are more empirical comparisons between filter lists.
Adguard's Japanese filters are also probably a better alternative than the current Japanese filters with false positives.

Adguard's Mobile Ads could be a good alternative

Currently there is no infrastructure in uBO to auto-select a list at install time according to whether a browser is a mobile version or not. Idea is interesting though.

Adguard Japanese is interesting given how overzealous the current one in uBO is, but I don't see recent commits in there: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/JapaneseFilter/sections, last meaningful change was 6 months ago.

There's also the question of if Mobile Ads is supposed to be a standalone filter. If I remember correctly, Adguard Mobile enables Adguard Mobile filters alongside Adguard English.

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