With EasyList in the news for breaking YouTube view counts I think that it’s a good time to post my list of ways that I’ve personally seen EasyList break other sites. I think many people here who use ad blockers are not aware of how ridiculous many of the rules in EasyList are and how unwilling the authors are to fix it:
– https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48142-supermicro-ipmi – Blocking anything called eventlog.js because a website they didn’t like must have used that name once.
– https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48173-300×250 – Blocking a few hundred variants of NNNxNNN because some ads happen to have that in their file name, nevermind that this also blocks probably millions of not-ad images that also happen to put their resolution in their file name.
– https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48478-go-oracle-com – Blocking Oracle’s link redirection domain just because I guess.
– https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48491-belong-curtin-edu-au – Blocking a university’s outreach program page because they dared to use an Oracle service.
– Blocking anything called `disclaim_bar`, `disclaimer-box`, `disclaimerBox`, `disclaimerC`, or `disclaimerDialog_modal`, which as you might imagine blocks all sorts of important warnings on websites.
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