If you click the Home button for one of the EasyList filter lists in uBlock settings, now you will go to a page that succinctly describes what the filter does. The old links took you to a forum with no clear way to find info on a given filter, especially for a new user.
Some sublists fail to load with this CDN, and
uBO fails to properly error out on the whole
list in such case, causing a truncated whole
list to be used in the end.
Too likely to cause breakage. It was originally added without
having been really evaluated. As per feedback, it's too likely
to cause breakage.
The list is seemingly used to evaluate filters, which are moved
to EasyPrivacy once they are deemed valid and useful.
As discussed internally with list maintainers:
- EasyList China doesn't leverage uBO's extended
filter syntax
- EasyList China's home page is no longer available
to the public
Additionally, "CJX's EasyList Lite" has been removed
from stock lists, as the list hosted on GitHub is no
longer updated, and "AdGuard Chinese" is the official
list to enable to address all filter issues for
Chinese sites.
Many filter lists are known to cause serious filtering
issues in uBO and are not meant to be used in uBO.
Unfortunately, unwitting users keep importing these
filter lists and as a result this ends up causing
filtering issues for which the resolution is always
to remove the incompatible filter list.
Example of inconpatible filter lists:
- Reek's Anti-Adblock Killer
- AdBlock Warning Removal List
- ABP anti-circumvention filter list
uBO will use the following resource to know
which filter lists are incompatible:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/badlists.txt
Incompatible filter lists can still be imported into
uBO, useful for asset-viewing purpose, but their content
will be discarded at compile time.
Related issues:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1116
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/984
It has been found that the two malware lists uBO uses by
default appear to be essentially no longer maintained.
urlhaus list[1] has been identified by the community as
being well maintained and as being actually useful as a
default malware-related list in uBO, since it's being updated
every day from a database of top domains and specific URLs
identified as serving malicious content. Additionally, the
maintainer of urlhaus list has taken steps to increase
compatibility with uBO[2].
The decision has been to replace the current two malware-
related lists with urlhaus list, which will be enabled by
default in uBO -- and this means that list will be part of
uBO's package from now on.
For those who have the two removed malware lists enabled,
these will be moved to the custom lists section -- they
will still be enabled. It is suggested users remove them from
their selection of lists as their usefulness at this point
is questionable.
[1] https://gitlab.com/curben/urlhaus-filter
[2] 859dfd03c6
