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Opera performed an analysis on the effectiveness of Easylist and reported in a blog that 20 percent of the listed URLs 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).
Scientific studies show that large blocklist are a little more effective on 'long tail' websites (not in Alexa top 500.000 with more
than 2000 unique visitors per day), but a little less effective on Alexa top top 300000 (websites with more than 3000+ visitors per
day). Websites with many visitors are more likely to install adblock walls to protect advertising income. Anti-adblock walls often
check for popular content filters (like Easylist), see for instance https://browserleaks.com/proxy
Scientific studies also showed that large blocklist adblockers (AdBlockPlus and uBlock0rigin) were a little more effective for websites
not in Alexa top 500.000 (with more than 2000 unique visitors per day), but a little less effective on Alexa top top 300000 (websites
with more than 3000+ visitors per day), compared with small blocklist adblockers (Ghostery and Privacy Possum) (Websites with many
visitors are more likely to install adblock walls to protect advertising income. Anti-adblock walls often check for popular content
filters (like Easylist), see for instance https://browserleaks.com/proxy
ALTERNATIVES
When you want a common use well maintained small blocklist, use Disconnect's Simple Ad-filter or Peter Low's blocklist (both have over