For some context: This is EasyList, a popular adblock list that is enabled by default in Brave and is often enabled in other browsers. Additionally it is enabled by default in uBlock lite, which many chrome users will likely be switching to with the deprecation of Manifest V2.
We recently ran in to some hard to track down issues related to this and I thought that it might help some others with similar issues and hopefully get people to use lists with less overzealous rules. As some more examples of the type of things in this list, they also block all of the following class names across all websites:
There's 326 arbitrary blocks of the form NNNxNNN or similar that block many images that have dimensions in the name. The list authors suggest that it should be up to websites to work around their nonsense: https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48173-300x250
Edit: It looks like uBlock Lite removes at least some of these. It's not entirely clear how their list works. Other adblockers that use easylist directly obviously do not do the same.
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 18.1 ms ] threadWe recently ran in to some hard to track down issues related to this and I thought that it might help some others with similar issues and hopefully get people to use lists with less overzealous rules. As some more examples of the type of things in this list, they also block all of the following class names across all websites:
disclaim_bar, disclaimer-box, disclaimerBox, disclaimerC, disclaimerDialog_modal
Addtionally:
They block one of my university's subdomains because someone dared to use Oracle services: https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48491-belong-curtin-...
They block the entirety of go.oracle.com: https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48478-go-oracle-com
There's 326 arbitrary blocks of the form NNNxNNN or similar that block many images that have dimensions in the name. The list authors suggest that it should be up to websites to work around their nonsense: https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48173-300x250
Edit: It looks like uBlock Lite removes at least some of these. It's not entirely clear how their list works. Other adblockers that use easylist directly obviously do not do the same.