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NSO_Pegasus_Blocklist
Formatted HOSTS blocklist for 1.5K domains researched by Amnesty International; combats malicious mobile phone spyware
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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toolz
Easy-to-use interface and extensive collection of testing tools for optimizing performance and user experience. (by d3ward)
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.
removeparam is still outstanding. https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust/issues/166
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.