Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl...
by sp332 on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:50PM
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Easylist is not well maintained, and sometimes they have really petty arguments with website owners instead of just fixing rules that break actual content. For example, they have a specific list of sites that are not allowed to show Amazon affiliate links. They don't block all such links as a policy or anything, it just breaks specific websites. https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=37621623#p3762...
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Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl...
by stefan_ on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:19PM
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I've read the EasyList forum thread linked above for the AutoTrader site, and the issue there was indeed a generic rule that just breaks every link containing advert. That is some monumental, unfathomable stupidity. And instead of realizing that, they have the gall to refer to that rule existing for a very long time!
The same issue was seen with Spamhaus and similar IP block services for eMail spam. What were selfless intentions quickly morphed into ineffective, power-crazed gatekeepers and extortion artists that have made SMTP an unusable protocol unless you are Google or Amazon.