toolz
Easy-to-use interface and extensive collection of testing tools for optimizing performance and user experience. (by d3ward)
NSO_Pegasus_Blocklist
Formatted HOSTS blocklist for 1.5K domains researched by Amnesty International; combats malicious mobile phone spyware (by jjjxu)
toolz | NSO_Pegasus_Blocklist | |
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10 | 2 | |
881 | 34 | |
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7.8 | 0.0 | |
6 days ago | almost 3 years ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
toolz
Posts with mentions or reviews of toolz.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-17.
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Cover Your Tracks
If you want to understand better the situation, you can see this github issue by Ryanbr, who works for Brave and maintains Easylist and Fanboy lists: https://github.com/d3ward/toolz/issues/31
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Only 'Partial Protection' on Cover Your Tracks. Should I be concerned?
d3ward adblock test is the same crappy crap, and you can see how ryanbr who works at Brave and Easylist speaks about it in their github issues about unused domains and how the test will never get 100% because non tracking urls being added to the test, and even if the domains ryanbr mentioned in that issue got removed already, Brave and uBlock still don't get 100% because of similar issues with tests checking weird stuff that don't matter in real world.
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How is this possible? Firefox Adblock issues
The problem with this specific test is also how many of the URLs it is Blocking are not real ones, so sometimes Easylist/uBlock will not add them to their list because they are not used in the real world for tracking purposes, you can read even Ryanbr talked about it here https://github.com/d3ward/toolz/issues/31So if those urls were tracking or delivering ads, it would already be blocked by Easylist.
- Testing FF & GChrome: Please, I need an explanation
- Toolz offers a simple and beautiful design test that allows you to quickly and easily test the performance of your current ad/content blocker solution.
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Brave Browser letting ads through social media urls
https://github.com/d3ward/toolz/issues/31 and https://community.brave.com/t/brave-no-more-secure-doesnt-block-amazon-ads/299815/3
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How to make the ad block in vivaldi better?
Just a quick note in reference to before mentioned test page https://github.com/d3ward/toolz/issues/31
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No longer blocking some Facebook and Amazon
I've created a ticket https://github.com/d3ward/toolz/issues/31 but given the lack of fixes. Just avoid it.
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About Brave Adblock
d3ward's test is invalid and shows unused domains as checks. Just checks random urls, we use to have "100% coverage" but then the owner decided to add random domains not actually used. We weren't going to block domains that aren't actually used on any websites or anywhere.
NSO_Pegasus_Blocklist
Posts with mentions or reviews of NSO_Pegasus_Blocklist.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-17.
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About Brave Adblock
Recently, I decided to disable uBlock Origin and try the in-built adblocker in the Brave Browser. The default filters seem too weak to me so I decided to enable Aggressive Trackers & ads blocking option, toggled on Easylist - Cookielist, Fanboy Annoyances List and uBlock Annoyances list, and I also added a the following lists from other sources: Energized Blu, d3ward's d3host and jjjxu's NSO Pegasus Blocklist. I was expecting the filters I added to work since Brave Browser tells me that they are enabled but when I try testing the adblocker with d3ward's Adblocker Test, the adblocker seems to only block 88% hosts, which should be 100% with the filter lists I have added(I know this because the same test used to show 100% blocked when I used uBlock Origin with the exact custom filters, I am aware that uBlock Origin has other filters by default as well but in the default state it too never blocked 100% hosts in the test). I also restarted the browser quite many times, rebooted even my system knowing that it really won't have much of an affect and clearing browsing data including all the cache and cookies but in vain. The other thing that I am really frustrated about is that there's no support for `$removeparam` yet. I don't want to use an extra extension(like ClearURLs) just for this purpose now that uBlock Origin supports it too. I do know that there's already a GitHub issue regarding this which is why I am ranting here instead. I am using the current official stable build(v1.41.96) from the official brave-browser repository on openSUSE Tumbleweed, in case anyone's wondering.
- Pegasus Malware - Packet Sniffing?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing toolz and NSO_Pegasus_Blocklist you can also consider the following projects:
block-ads - Web page to test ad blocking and encourage use of blockers.
adblock-rust - Brave's Rust-based adblock engine
postcss-px-to-viewport - A plugin for PostCSS that generates viewport units (vw, vh, vmin, vmax) from pixel units. The best choice to create a scalable interface on different displays by one design size.
AmIUnique - Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet
blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.
WebTools-NG - WebTools Next Generation for Plex