EasyList / EasyPrivacy / Fanboy Lists

These lists are maintained by Fanboy, 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)

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.

List Issues

Filter issues can be raised via Email, via Forum, or via Github. Accountability & 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

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 or Email, via Forum.

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