Easylist Alternatives

easylist reviews and mentions

• How to Detect AdBlock/AdBlockPlus Activation Status with JavaScript
  2 projects | dev.to | 22 Mar 2025

  After reviewing AdBlock Plus documentation, I discovered they use EasyList as their default filter rules. EasyList is a community-maintained open-source filter list targeting ads and trackers.

• Apple's new Safari feature removes distracting items from websites
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2024

  uBlock Origin has a few 'Annoyances' lists that you can enable in the settings, e.g. Fanboy's list on https://easylist.to/

• Let's build a screenshot API
  8 projects | dev.to | 24 Mar 2024

  import { ScreenshotOptions } from "./schema"; import puppeteer, { Page } from "puppeteer"; import { PuppeteerBlocker } from "@cliqz/adblocker-puppeteer"; import fetch from "cross-fetch"; let blocker: PuppeteerBlocker | null = null; async function blockCookieBanners(page: Page) { if (!blocker) { blocker = await PuppeteerBlocker.fromLists(fetch, [ // the list of the cookie banners to block from the https://easylist.to/ website "https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster.txt", ]); } await blocker.enableBlockingInPage(page); } export async function render( options: ScreenshotOptions ): Promise<{ url: string }> { const browser = await puppeteer.launch(); const page = await browser.newPage(); if (options.block_cookie_canners) { await blockCookieBanners(page); } await page.setViewport({ width: options.viewport_width, height: options.viewport_height, deviceScaleFactor: options.device_scale_factor, }); await page.goto(options.url); const encodedScreenshot = await page.screenshot({ type: "jpeg", encoding: "base64", fullPage: options.full_page, }); await browser.close(); return { url: `data:image/jpeg;base64,${encodedScreenshot}` }; }

• EasyList: Filter list that removes most ads
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2024
• Firefox private mode now automatically blocks cookie banners for German users
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2024

  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...

• Help removing ads on https://getgreenshot.org/
  2 projects | /r/uBlockOrigin | 10 Dec 2023
• CNN is blocking the Brave Browser
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023

  I think this is now fixed (or worked around) by https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/17937 ?

• Issue with Filters in Germany
  1 project | /r/uBlockOrigin | 28 Sep 2023

  You mean the VG Wort METIS tracking in order to participate in the German royalty scheme? From a publisher perspective that tracking is necessary, but from a user perspective it's just another example of third party tracking. Thus, it is part of some filterlists that uBlock Origin users can subscribe to, for example the EasyPrivacy list. Talking to the filterlist authors is very unlikely to resolve this: after all, it is tracking, regardless of intention.

• Easylist adblocking reaches 200k commits
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2023
• Why does ublockorigin break this website's login functionality?
  1 project | /r/uBlockOrigin | 10 Sep 2023
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