EasyList / EasyPrivacy / Fanboy Lists
This Adblock list is maintained by Fanboy, MonztA and Khrin.
EasyList
The goal of this repository is to block ads on English sites. By blocking the following:
- Ad Scripts (Generic and site-specific)
- Cosmetic filtering (Generic and site-specific css)
- Ad servers (Block servers that host ads/ad-related content)
- Prevent popups (Block scripts or domains that cause popups/ad notifications)
EasyPrivacy
The goal of this repository is to block tracking and improve end user privacy. By blocking the following:
- Analytics
- Telemetry
- Pixels
- Referrers
- Beacons
- Fingerprinting
- Impressions/Event/Perf/Pageview logging
- User agent monitoring
- Resource Miners
- Hit Counters
- CNAME trackers
- Linking to other third-party tracking servers
- Some unnessary third-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-partys.
- 1st-party tracking. Self hosted trackers and cnames.
- Third-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 is to tracking/analytics the user, will be blocked the url level.
List Issues
Filter issues can be raised via Email 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.
For any issues or questions, create a ticket: Github.
Support
EasyList, EasyPrivacy and Fanboy lists are used in a number of extensions, browsers such as Adblock Plus, uBlock Origin, Adblock, Adguard, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi.