My goal is primarily to block the tracking ability of the ubiquitous social buttons and widgets, I don't care about cosmetic blocking of the widgets and would rather not use thousands of cosmetic filters that I don't need. Can I achieve this by just using the several hundred network filters under the Third-party blocking rules subsection (lines 16231-16500 currently) of Fanboy’s Social list or will this be redundant to Easy Privacy or are these rules really best used with the whitelist and other filters from Fanboy’s Social list?
note: I am not interested in turning off all cosmetic filtering, just those within Fanboy’s Social list
Thank you.
Fanboy’s Social list minus cosmetic filters
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Unsubscribe the official social list and subscribe this one (social without cosmetic - updated once a day):
https://axistrivia.altervista.org/list/social.txt
https://axistrivia.altervista.org/list/social.txt
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intense: thank you for that link! that's exactly what I was looking for. did you make that list yourself? i could not find anything like that in https://filterlists.com or anywhere else.
yes, you could do it yourself.
1. space on some free server
2. a php script (which get the fanboy social list - or whatever other list - from
3. use
4. subscribe the filtered list
1. space on some free server
2. a php script (which get the fanboy social list - or whatever other list - from
https://easylist.to/easylist/fanboy-social.txt
and then filter such list using a simple regex to remove all lines containing ##
or #@
)3. use
https://cron-job.org/en/
page to launch once a day the php script4. subscribe the filtered list
Took a bit to get it automated, but you can add this to your uBO.
It will update once daily weekly (we don't want to be too spammy).
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LanikSJ/ubo-filters/main/filters/fanboy-social-no-cosmetic.txt
"If it ain't broke don't fix it."
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LanikSJ: thanks for your response! that link together with Fanboy's Anti-Facebook in UBO does everything I wanted. will it be added to any public list?
I'll see if I can get the owner of https://filterlists.com to add it. No promises.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it."