From 383cce9bc3b1ac5c2cf80f0dbf316f6119f73bb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees1958 <30925856+Kees1958@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:27:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b18c77b..bb55a09 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,15 +11,15 @@ TOP 500.000 websites, I looked at the advertising industry itself, to block the obvious benefit of low maintenance effort (for me) and low performance impact (for the adblocker you are using). WHY USE A MINIMAL BLOCKLIST? -Number 250 on this list only has a marginal market share of 0.1% on the Alexa top 10000. That is why I use an adblock extension with an -easy point and click mechanisme to block or hide annoying stuff on the websites I have added to my bookmarks. No matter how large the -blocklist will be, your blocklist will always be missing trackers on websites with low visitors. +Number 250 on this list only has a marginal market share of 0.1 % on the Alexa top 100000. Imagine how effective URL number 50.000 will +be of your blocklist. Fair chance it will never be triggered. Some adblockers have an option to exclude URL's with low usage (like +AdGuard 'use optimized filters' option) or periodically filter out dead URL's (Opera's and Brave's build-in adblockers). -Problem with most community based blocklists is that they are not well maintained. Opera once checked the effectiveness of Easylist and -reported in a blog that 20 percent of the listed URL were dead and 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). Scientifics studies showed that large blocklist are (a little) -more effective on 'long tail' websites (not in Alexa top 500.000), but a little less effective on Alexa top top 500000 (websitws with -more than 2000+ visitors per day), because common blocklist trigger adblock walls and anti-adblock measures. +Opera performed an analysis on the effectiveness of Easylist and reported in a blog that 20 percent of the listed URL were dead and +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). +Scientifics studies showe that large blocklist are (a little) more effective on 'long tail' websites (not in Alexa top 500.000), but +a little less effective on Alexa top top 500000 (websitws with more than 2000+ visitors per day), because common blocklist trigger +adblock walls and anti-adblock measures (or even help to tag you, see https://browserleaks.com/proxy). ALTERNATIVES When you want a common use well maintained small blocklist, use most Disconnet common Ad-filter or Peter Low's blocklist (over 3000