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Bug 755188 - Use the "EasyPrivacy" list in the Ad Blocker too
Use the "EasyPrivacy" list in the Ad Blocker too
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 739631
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: General
3.17.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Michael Catanzaro
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 755292
 
 
Reported: 2015-09-17 21:47 UTC by Diogo Campos
Modified: 2015-09-23 00:41 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Diogo Campos 2015-09-17 21:47:33 UTC 
It is so official and high quality as the "EasyList" list itself [1]; and is already used by default by popular blockers such as uBlock/uBlock Origin [2].

[1]: https://easylist.adblockplus.org/
[2]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/

Also, this should cause a nice big positive impact now that Ad Blocker is turned on by default.
Comment 1 Diogo Campos 2015-09-20 06:54:54 UTC 
Alternatives:

- Firefox is experimenting a built-in "Tracking Protection"[1] that, initially, uses the blocklist from Disconnect[2].

- EFF has a extension called "Privacy Badger"[3], that makes "Heuristic Blocking"[4] by analyzing websites behavior, to try to enforce the DNT setting.

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-firefox
[2]: https://disconnect.me/
[3]: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
[4]: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox#how-heuristic-blocking-works
Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2015-09-20 14:23:07 UTC 
Privacy Badger blocks too much; we can't have it enabled by default, and I don't think it's a good idea to offer it as an option. Let's look into EasyPrivacy and Disconnect. Those are manually-curated lists which I expect will be less effective, but hopefully safe enough to enable by default.
Comment 3 Michael Catanzaro 2015-09-23 00:41:15 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 739631 ***