According to Ryan, EasyList has replaced instances of -abp-contains() and -abp-has() with has-text() and has() respectively.
This move makes EasyList more standards compliant.

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/33ca7f0

#EasyList

According to internal discussions, EasyList has applied for the Claude for Open Source Program. At present, it is unclear how they intend to use Claude. It is also not known if EasyList maintainer Ryan Brown consulted with other members of the EasyList team.

The Claude for Open Source Program is a program by AI company Anthropic which offers 6 months of free Claude Max to qualifying open source maintainers.
Repositories must have 5,000+ GitHub stars and activity within the last three months, though exceptions can be granted. EasyList has 2900 stars on GitHub.

https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss

According to those same internal discussions, AdGuard is either considering it or has already submitted their application. The AdguardFilters repository has 4200 stars on GitHub.

The use of AI in open source projects is not uncontroversial, with projects sometimes facing pushback from the community.

#EasyList #FilterlistUpdate #AI #ClaudeForOpenSourceProgram #Claude

Version 144.0.7559.109.0 of GrapheneOS's Vanadium browser includes two updates relevant to content filtering:

• now, Nordic EasyList is enabled for "Danish, Finnish, Icelandic and Swedish rather than only Norwegian [...] and Greenlandic"
• this update adds the EasyList Adblock Warning Removal List

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/144.0.7559.109.0

#EasyList #GrapheneOS #FilterlistUpdate

uBlock Origin 1.69.0 has been released.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.69.0

This update adds a variety of new features, including EasyList's Anti-AI Suggestions list. This new list would be found in the annoyances section, under the dropdown of "EasyList annoyances".

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a0a7a99675

The update can not be installed in Chrome or Firefox yet, as it is still pending review.

#EasyList #uBlockOrigin #FilterlistUpdate #AI

Ryan Brown, maintainer of EasyList, has reported their X account has been suspended due to a DMCA claim.

#EasyList #X #Twitter #DMCA

A single adblock filter may have caused YouTube's global view drop

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues/22375

#HackerNews #adblock #YouTube #globalview #filter #issues #EasyList #digitalmedia

Ryan Brown blocklisted #OperaBrowser's affiliate domain (get-gx.net) in #EasyList, citing abuse of Opera's affiliate program.
They complained to Opera on Twitter/X about affiliate link abuse in February, but received no response.
In my experience, I have seen many popups leading to Opera affiliate links.
Ryan Brown did warn the content filtering community prior to this decision.

Added in: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/5bed6b4505d6eebb50ad0ed227d3cf9286ef6fee
More information: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/25d79aa71c3c18f1cd2cca8db9ff0a1802c0ef88
Original X/Twitter post: https://x[.]com/fanboynz/status/1760615101785313705
X/Twitter announcement: https://x[.]com/fanboynz/status/1797096270777201066

Interesting: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/pull/18170

#easylist #ublockorigin