2020-02-20 10:40:40 +01:00
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SOURCES
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This is a minimial blocklist based on the W3Tech annual surveys on most used webtechnology. In stead of crawling the web analyzing
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Alexa's TOP 500.000 websites, I looked at the web industry itself, to block the bulk of the mainstream advertising services with the
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obvious benefit of low maintenance effort (for me) and low performance impact (for the adblocker you are using).
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2020-01-23 12:25:40 +01:00
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2020-02-20 10:43:24 +01:00
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WHY USE A MINIMAL BLOCKLIST?
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2020-02-20 09:10:34 +01:00
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In advertising the number one (Google) has a marketshare of around 40 percent, Facebook the number two hits the 20 percent mark
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2020-02-20 09:34:45 +01:00
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while the number three Comscore just has a little over 2.5% marketshare. For comparison Amazon with its huge webstore generates
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2020-02-20 09:34:18 +01:00
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about the same advertising traffic on its own website.
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2020-01-23 12:25:40 +01:00
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2020-02-20 10:41:43 +01:00
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Number 200 on this list only has a marginal market share of 0.1 % 1n the Alexa top 10000. Imagine how effective URL number 50.000 will
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2020-02-20 10:27:04 +01:00
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be of your blocklist. Fair chance it will never be triggered. Some adblockers have an option to exclude URL's with low usage (like
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AdGuard 'use optimized filters' option) or periodically filter out dead URL's (Opera's and Brave's build-in adblockers).
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2020-02-20 09:50:18 +01:00
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2020-02-20 10:27:04 +01:00
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Opera performed an analysis on the effectiveness of Easylist and reported in a blog that 20 percent of the listed URL were dead and
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another 60% had a 'hit rate' of less than 1% of all the traffic of the Opera browser users (having agreed to provide telemetry data).
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2020-02-20 10:45:58 +01:00
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Scientific studies show that large blocklist are (a little) more effective on 'long tail' websites (not in Alexa top 500.000), but
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less effective on Alexa top top 500000 (websites with more than 2000+ visitors per day), because common blocklist (like Easylist)
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often trigger adblock walls and anti-adblock measures or even help to identify you (see for instance https://browserleaks.com/proxy).
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2020-02-20 09:50:18 +01:00
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2020-02-20 10:10:14 +01:00
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ALTERNATIVES
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2020-02-20 10:32:24 +01:00
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When you want a common use well maintained small blocklist, use Disconnect's common Ad-filter or Peter Low's blocklist (over 3000
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2020-02-20 10:34:33 +01:00
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blacklisted URL's). When you want a well maintained medium sized blocklist, use Steven Black's blocklist (more than 50.000 URL's
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blacklisted). When you want a large blocklist have a look at the 'ultimate' blocklist of Energized.pro (over 700K URL's blacklisted).
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2020-02-20 09:50:18 +01:00
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2020-02-20 10:10:14 +01:00
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ERRORS & ISSUES
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2020-02-20 09:50:18 +01:00
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When you still want to use this blocklist, feel free to use it and provide feedback on errors. You can post issues, but I will only have
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2020-02-20 11:02:26 +01:00
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a look at it when the issue causes a problem on an COM, INF, NET or ORG domain. Most adblocker-extensions with an option to add your own
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custom filyters (e.g. AdBlockPlus, Adguard, uBlockOrigin) have an option to correct problems in filters with 'badfilter' option (look
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for UserFilter or MyFilter). When this filter causes a problem on website ABC_example.com, simply add a badfilter using this syntax:
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||ABC_example.com$badfilter
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