diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4da491e..df44b8a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -15,10 +15,11 @@ URL's (like Opera's and Brave's build-in adblockers claim to do). 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