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SOURCES
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2020-02-21 08:56:15 +01:00
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This is a minimial blocklist based on the W3Tech annual surveys on most used webtechnology and Cookiebot tracking surveys. In stead
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of crawling the web analyzing Alexa's TOP 500.000 websites, I looked at the web industry itself, to block the bulk of the mainstream
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advertising services with the obvious benefit of low maintenance effort (for me) and low performance impact (for your adblocker).
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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 10:10:14 +01:00
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ALTERNATIVES
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2020-02-21 09:33:02 +01:00
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When you want a common use well maintained small blocklist, use Disconnect's Simple Ad-filter or Peter Low's blocklist. These lists also
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2020-02-21 09:34:09 +01:00
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aim to block adnetworks in stead of adsvertismens on websites (that is why they only have over 3000 blacklisted URL's). When you prefer
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2020-02-21 09:33:02 +01:00
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large blocklist have a look at Energized.pro. They claim to have an automated process to remove dead links and duplicates.
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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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2020-02-21 09:33:02 +01:00
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a look at it when the issue causes a problem on an COMefer , INF, NET or ORG domain. You can fix a problem easily yourself in most adblock
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2020-02-20 11:05:14 +01:00
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extensions (e.g. AdBlockPlus, Adguard, uBlockOrigin). Look for UserFilter or MyFilter in the extension options. For instance when this
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filter causes a problem on website ABC_example.com, simply add a badfilter using this syntax:
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2020-02-20 11:02:26 +01:00
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||ABC_example.com$badfilter
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