Looking back, it has been a long time since anyone has evaluated or released the statistics for the EasyList subscriptions, so I thought that, as August has just eneded, it might be time to estimate exactly how many users there are of the filter lists.
Even though I am aware …
read moreThe basic principle of EasyList is that its "filters must remove adverts". However, several discussions, usually with website owners, have highlighted an obvious issue: "advert" has not been precisely defined. A topic was therefore opened in the new EasyList policy forum and culminated in the definition of an advert as …
read moreDutchAdblockList, authored by Famlam, a contributor to Adblock for Chrome, has been a recognised subscription for a little over a year now. However, we have been impressed by the filter list, which caters for Dutch-language domains, and are therefore please to announce our affiliation with the subscription, which may be …
read moreThere has recently been considerable discussion among contributors to the EasyList project about the status of rules for adult domains in the subscription. EasyList policy has been that filters for such websites have been excluded from the subscription, with users referred to Fanboy's Adult / Dating List as a supplement to …
read moreChinaList is a familiar subscription to many Adblock Plus users, being one of the oldest filter lists for the extension and recommended for Chinese language domains. Although the subscription was previously independent, they recently decided to switch to being a supplement to EasyList, at which point we approached the authors …
read moreAt the end of February the EasyList project were privately notified that there remained some unblocked adverts on Giorgio Maone's add-on websites which were slightly different to items usually …
There have never previously been formal policies for EasyList and EasyPrivacy, which made it difficult for contributors and, on occasion, authors, to suggest and add filters in a unified manner. This has now changed, with the subscription policies now publicly available on the website. While they may not account for …
read moreABPindo has now become officially affiliated with EasyList after considerable updates to the element hiding filers to improve efficiency. The subscription, which has been steadily developed since February of this year, is designed as a supplement for Indonesian-language websites and is now listed on the EasyList homepage, from where it …
read moreThe introduction of the Adblock Plus issue reporter has resulted in a significant increase in the number of users who have reported missing adverts or problems on adult domains. These reports have often been met with little to no response for the simple reason that EasyList and EasyPrivacy policy dictates …
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