-ads.

[Guest]

Which filters you have removed when you added this one to EasyList from EasyTest?

I don't think generic filters like this one (filters contain only one word: ads or adv) should be on EasyList. Now any domain contain '-ads.' like superbowl-ads.com will blocked. I'm sure there are much more false positives.

[Guest]

and in this page: http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/20246 ... ers-losers

-ads-$~stylesheet blocks GooglePlus, linkedin, sharethis, and etc.

[arflech]

That's what we have whitelist entries for, my dear.

[Guest]

I know, but I think you would have more exception rules than blocking rules for these kind of filters.
You've removed less than 30 blocking rules but you'll need dozens of exception rules.

Problematic filters:

-ads-$~stylesheet
-ads.
-ads/
-ads?
_ads?
-ads_
_ads-
/ads_
/ads-
-ads-
_ads_
-advert-
-advert.
/advert.
-advertisement-
-advertisement.
/advertisment-

another false positves:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... aking.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/artic ... jects.html

you can find more on:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search. ... Phrase=ads
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search. ... ase=advert

Any article in a news-site/magazine about advertisement or any site about advertisement could be a false positive.

[Guest]

more examples (blocks twitter and etc. on some sites):

http://www.beautifullife.info/advertism ... la-in-ads/
http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/ ... -you-laugh
http://news.accuracast.com/google-7471/ ... -of-serps/
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... ds/247917/

[Guest]

and more:
http://carsonline-ads.com/colsite/col?u ... d=showHome
http://www.vintage-ads.com/
http://superbowl-ads.com/article_archive/

it's easy to find such examples.

[Guest]

Are you going to do something?

I suggest you replace these filter with the (less aggressive) filters EasyList has had before.
I think it's less than 100 filter you should add in order to cover the problematic filters I posted above.

Right now there are thousands of broken pages and there is no why you can whitelist them all...

[MonztA]

Are you going to do something?

Yes. We are currently discussing the issue.

[Guest]

some more filters I missed:

_advert_
_advertise.
_advertise_
_advertisement.
_advertisement_
_advertisements/
_advertising/
_advertisment.
/advertisment.
/advertisings.
/advertising_
/advertise-
/advertise.
/advert?
/advert_
/advert-
/advert.
/advertiser.

In fact every filter that contains the word: ads/advert(s)/advertisment(s)/advertise(s)/advertising(s)/advertiser(s)
and only /-_.? excluding those starting with ? and those starting and ending with /

[Ares2]

For a start, I've removed the ^[-/_?\.&=]ads[-/_?\.&=]$ rules. Also see here: http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?p=36814#p36814

As far as the other rules go, they have been in EasyList for a very long time without significant problems, therefore we are going to consider their fate more carefully. We will probably only remove them very slowly and not necessarily all of them.