EasyList / EasyPrivacy / Fanboy Lists

These lists are maintained by Fanboy (a.k.a. ryanbr), MonztA, and Khrin.

EasyList

The goal of this repository is to block ads on English and International sites. First-party ads (that don't link, or passthrough to 3rd-party sites) won't be targeted directly. By blocking the following:

Ad scripts (Generic and site-specific)
Ad images
Text/CSS ads
Pre/mid/end video ads
Affiliate links/images/widgets
Cosmetic filtering (Generic and site-specific CSS)
Ad servers (Block servers that host ads/ad-related contents)
Prevent popups/popunders (Block scripts or domains that cause popups/popunders/ad notifications)
Placeholders of non-trivial size (Usually ≥50px tall and ≥50px wide)

Anti-adblock in Easylist will cover cosmetic and generic blocks checks:

Prevent adblock users showing a website
Create elements to disrupt viewing a website

For legal reasons, Anti-adblock this will only cover:

Adult websites
File or Link hosting/sharing
Streaming/Torrent/Comic sites
Any historical anti-adblock rules

EasyPrivacy

The goal of this repository is to block tracking and improve end user privacy. By blocking the following:

Analytics
Bot checks
Telemetry
Tracking cookies
Pixels
Referrers
Beacons
Fingerprinting
Impressions/Event/Perf/Pageview logging
User agent monitoring
Resource miners
Hit counters
CNAME trackers
Linking to other 3rd-party tracking servers
Some unnecessary 3rd-party scripts/images

When a site is attempting to track, it'll be put into one of 4 categories.

Generic blocks (common URL/tracking filter patterns) used by 1st/3rd-parties.
1st-party tracking. Self-hosted trackers and CNAME trackers.
3rd-party tracking. Hosted by another provider, which hosts a tracking script, but not actually a tracking company.
Tracking-servers. Where the server has only one purpose to track/analyze user, will be blocked at the url level.

Fanboy Lists

This repo also hosts the files for Fanboy's Annoyances List, EasyList Cookie List, Fanboy's Social Blocking List, and Fanboy's Notifications Blocking List.

List issues

Filter issues can be raised via E-mail, via Forum, or via Github. Accountability and responsibility remain with the list authors and not with extensions and/or web browsers.

Attempt fix website false-positives where applicable such as:

Website breakages
Allow direct link fixes
Web page rendering issues

It is preferable to submit issues instead of pull requests, because the EasyList team will need to look through the sites anyway, and pull requests can fall victim to rebase errors.

Complaints

If your site was added to EasyList or EasyPrivacy:

Outline why it shouldn't be added.
The specific commit in question, or specific filter.
Is it covered by any of the EasyList/EasyPrivacy requirements?

For any issues or questions, create a ticket: Github E-mail, or via Forum.

Support

EasyList, EasyPrivacy, and Fanboy lists are used in a number of extensions and browsers such as Adblock Plus, uBlock Origin, AdBlock, AdGuard, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi.