some filters are redundant...

[maybee]

there are these filters in the easylist.

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||adserver.yahoo.com^

||adserver.yahoo.com^$third-party

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||uimserv.net^

||uimserv.net^$third-party

I think some filters are useless filters.

[Michael]

The presence of both ||adserver.yahoo.com^ and ||adserver.yahoo.com^$third-party is intentional; however, I am struggling to find an example of where ||uimserv.net^ would be required.

[MonztA]

The logout page of web.de ("https://creativeproxy.uimserv.net") needs ||uimserv.net^

[Michael]

Thanks MonztA. This means that all redundancy present in the subscription is intentional; there are two different filters present to properly distinguish between the specific rules required and ones which block third-party tracking domains.

[Hubird]

You should run EasyList through the redundant filter checker again, I was messing about and it came up with a few redundant filters.


Also you have some redundant hides:

Line 1946: ###leader-sponsor
Line 5032: komonews.com###leader-sponsor

Line 2734: ##.articleEmbeddedAdBox
Line 5432: sbsun.com##.articleEmbeddedAdBox
Line 5141: mercurynews.com##.articleEmbeddedAdBox

Line 2805: ##.cbstv_ad_label
Line 4572: cbs5.com##.cbstv_ad_label

Line 3027: ##.mpuBox
Line 5336: pcpro.co.uk##.mpuBox

Line 3096: ##.remads
Line 4816: filestube.com##.remads

Line 3163: ##.sitesponsor
Line 5544: sunderlandecho.com##.sitesponsor

[Michael]

Thanks for letting me know; I have removed the redundant filters present in EasyList (https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/243d686c85f6 and https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylist/rev/6a6bf9bd6b22). Out of interest, how did you discover the redundant hiding rules?

[Hubird]

Out of interest, how did you discover the redundant hiding rules?

I have a family member who is a Software Developer, if I do enough nagging they will sometimes create utilities to make my adblocking easier. One to find redundant hides was the most recent.

[Erunno]

One could probably use ABP's substring search algorithm to detect redundant filter as well.