Easylist Break More Than Just Youtube
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- https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48142-supermicro-ipmi - Blocking anything called eventlog.js because a website they didn't like must have used that name once.
- https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48173-300x250 - Blocking a few hundred variants of NNNxNNN because some ads happen to have that in their file name, nevermind that this also blocks probably millions of not-ad images that also happen to put their resolution in their file name.
- https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48478-go-oracle-com - Blocking Oracle's link redirection domain just because I guess.
- https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?t=48491-belong-curtin-edu-au - Blocking a university's outreach program page because they dared to use an Oracle service.
- Blocking anything called `disclaim_bar`, `disclaimer-box`, `disclaimerBox`, `disclaimerC`, or `disclaimerDialog_modal`, which as you might imagine blocks all sorts of important warnings on websites.
The author shares their experience of EasyList breaking various websites beyond YouTube.
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