Tell HN: EasyList breaks a decent chunk of the internet
I've once again ran in to a case of EasyList, which is one of the most popular ad blocking lists, breaking a website in a subtle way. I think many people here who use ad blockers are not aware of how ridiculous many of the rules in EasyList are and how unwilling the authors are to fix it. Therefore I have compiled a small list of examples to try to compel people to switch to just about any other list:
- https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48142-supermicro-ipmi - Blocking anything called eventlog.js because a website they didn't like must have used that name once.
- https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48173-300x250 - Blocking a few hundred variants of NNNxNNN because some ads happen to have that in their file name, nevermind that this also blocks probably millions of not-ad images that also happen to put their resolution in their file name.
- https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48478-go-oracle-com - Blocking Oracle's link redirection domain just because I guess.
- https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48491-belong-curtin-edu-au - Blocking a university's outreach program page because they dared to use an Oracle service.
- Blocking anything called `disclaim_bar`, `disclaimer-box`, `disclaimerBox`, `disclaimerC`, or `disclaimerDialog_modal`, which as you might imagine blocks all sorts of important warnings on websites.
I have to disable ublock origin everytime I use Klarna or bankId apps here in Norway. Small hiccup and I have chosen to have my peace with it.