<story><title>‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list</title><url>https://digiday.com/media/just-four-dudes-inside-easylist-community-run-adblocking-list-disrupting-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>I had an issue with this recently, where buttons simply linking to our Twitter and Facebook pages were being blocked.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m no fan of obtrusive, JavaScript laden ads, and have used adblockers myself for years, but why block &amp;quot;legitimate&amp;quot; content?&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t know how to get removed from the list (and assumed it wouldn&amp;#x27;t happen anyway), so changed a couple of class names and it was working again. But I don&amp;#x27;t know how long the issue was there before I realised it :&amp;#x2F;</text></item><item><author>patd</author><text>I did run into the same issue as mentioned in the article and the Easylist forum is full of publishers having complaining that their site doesn&amp;#x27;t work anymore.&lt;p&gt;I started working on &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blockedby.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blockedby.com&lt;/a&gt; , a monitoring tool to warn you when a rule would impact your website.&lt;p&gt;But after contacting a few websites that did have the issue on the forum, I couldn&amp;#x27;t find any that actually wanted to prevent this. A few discussions with publishers told me that they&amp;#x27;re more interested in convincing their users to give up on ad blockers rather than face the fact that people are not going to abandon ad blockers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>Depending on how they&amp;#x27;re implemented, buttons linking to your Twitter and Facebook pages can double as trackers for Twitter and Facebook.&lt;p&gt;Anyway. People rarely intend to block legitimate content. At the same time, it&amp;#x27;s not always easy to tell what is and isn&amp;#x27;t legitimate when you&amp;#x27;re writing fairly general rules.</text></comment>
<story><title>‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list</title><url>https://digiday.com/media/just-four-dudes-inside-easylist-community-run-adblocking-list-disrupting-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>I had an issue with this recently, where buttons simply linking to our Twitter and Facebook pages were being blocked.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m no fan of obtrusive, JavaScript laden ads, and have used adblockers myself for years, but why block &amp;quot;legitimate&amp;quot; content?&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t know how to get removed from the list (and assumed it wouldn&amp;#x27;t happen anyway), so changed a couple of class names and it was working again. But I don&amp;#x27;t know how long the issue was there before I realised it :&amp;#x2F;</text></item><item><author>patd</author><text>I did run into the same issue as mentioned in the article and the Easylist forum is full of publishers having complaining that their site doesn&amp;#x27;t work anymore.&lt;p&gt;I started working on &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blockedby.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blockedby.com&lt;/a&gt; , a monitoring tool to warn you when a rule would impact your website.&lt;p&gt;But after contacting a few websites that did have the issue on the forum, I couldn&amp;#x27;t find any that actually wanted to prevent this. A few discussions with publishers told me that they&amp;#x27;re more interested in convincing their users to give up on ad blockers rather than face the fact that people are not going to abandon ad blockers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nodja</author><text>&amp;gt; buttons simply linking to our Twitter and Facebook pages were being blocked&lt;p&gt;Was everything hosted on your domain there? If they have images hosted by twitter&amp;#x2F;facebook that&amp;#x27;s enough for them to track users which is what these lists don&amp;#x27;t like.</text></comment>