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> The most popular of these is Easylist, which is not well-maintained I've never had a problem with a website that was solved by turning off Easylist. I also a

• sp332 7y ago
  Here's an example. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/i-updated-my-crusty-old-pentium-g-based-server-the-results-are-worth-sharing/?comments=1&post=37620223#comment-37620223 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/i-updated-my-crusty-... Ars Technica has certain posts, clearly marked with a header and everything, that include Amazon affiliate links. Easylist has a specific list of sites, mostly tech sites, which are not allowed to use Amazon affiliate links. It's not a general ban on affiliate links, and blocking them this way simply removes the text from the middle of a sentence. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/i-updated-my-crusty-old-pentium-g-based-server-the-results-are-worth-sharing/?comments=1&post=37620731#comment-37620731 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/i-updated-my-crusty-... and the response from the maintainers https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/3524 https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/3524 [Edit: previous general discussion about EasyList https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20593563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20593563 ]
  • coldpie 7y ago
    Wow yeah, that does look pretty terrible. Going to sub to that issue, thanks for the link.
  • gorhill 7y ago
    This sort of issue is usually worked around in uBO when they are reported on uBO's own filter issue tracker: <https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues> https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues>.