AdguardFilters

Yeah, their CTO accepting and repeating the complaint at face value, in less than 10 words to justify the censorship, is not a good look https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/216586#...

Unfortunately they went along with it initially but at least they came to their senses in the end: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/216586

It seems that the repo has been restored. And I suspect this commit is related: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/commit/118a2e7... Here's an archive page of it when it was removed: http://web.archive.org/web/20240903162953/https://github.com...

uBlock Origin has a few lists for cookie banners that I always keep on [0][1] [0] https://github.com/easylist/easylist/tree/master/easylist_co... [1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...

Write more filters for uBlock Origin and unbreak the web? e.g. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...

Site images blocked for me, and no examples in HTML. Looks like “shortpixel.ai” blocked by AdGuard Base. “Data on Swiss servers”, but shortpixel.com and shortpixel.ai owned by ID Scout of Romania. Their Wordpress plugin and CDN both superficially ‘act like’ plenty of free beacon tracker type image hosts, though this service offers paid plans and copy paste data legalese doesn’t reference advertising/measurement/aggregation third parties. I haven’t the time to look into why AdGuard is blocking, but perhaps it’s that ad banner or ad injector companies like it: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/search?q=short...

You might be interested in the Adguard Annoyances [1][2] blocklist which is easily added to uBlock Origin, just by ticking a checkbox in the "Filter lists" tab of the settings. [1] https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-filter-policy#anno... [2] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...

Stupid question: Can I block this with a host file? I know Adguard published a list. Kudos to them, but can this be used in an extensive host file? https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardFilters

I've flip-flopped between uBlock and AdGuard for a while now. Generally find AdGuard to be slightly better and has a much nicer UI. Also has a neat broken site reporting system in it which automatically generates a GitHub issue to fix the filter lists from a simplified form. Automatically prioritises sites via an algorithm, probably their Alexa ranking or something similar. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues I've found the issues get fixed pretty quickly too. They've got an iOS app as well which integrates with the Safari content blocking system.

>Google’s tracking code is on more websites than any other, including Facebook. Bonus: recaptcha is explicitly whitelisted[1][2] by most filter lists, so even using "tracking protection"/ad blocker isn't going to save you. [1] https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/1fe73f353dce3e3eae... [2] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/blob/43146e949...

I subscribe to various annoyance block lists; they have the same goal as pophurdle (hiding banners and notices and crap like that), only they are already established projects, work in browsers other than Chrome, have no intention of eventually screwing over the end user, and are community maintained. https://github.com/easylist/easylist/tree/master/fanboy-addo... https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An... This post is not directed at parent, but the general HN reader who might be tempted to try pophurdle. Use uBlock Origin instead. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#installation

Do you know any site that uses their technology? Any example could help revealing their method. EDIT: They seem to use WebRTC [0], but the claim that adblockers can't detect this is absurd. [0] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/4668