diff --git a/AnnoyancesList b/AnnoyancesList index dd2da7444..24d7384ba 100644 --- a/AnnoyancesList +++ b/AnnoyancesList @@ -1,33 +1,91 @@ ! Title: ⚙️ Dandelion Sprout's Annoyances List -! Version: 23October2025v2-Compilation +! Version: 03November2025v1-Compilation ! Expires: 18 hours ! Description: This list is made in the style of Fanboy's and AdGuard's annoyances lists, to show that I can make a just as good such annoyances list as them. It combines many of my proudest and most frequently maintained international lists, as a proof-of-concept and as a curated list for simplicity's sake. ! Homepage: https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/Wiki/General-info.md#-english -! What this broad compilation blocks in AdGuard and uBO, in alphabetic order: -! • "Download [browser/Acrobat]" buttons. -! • "Share page" buttons. -! • Attempts to prevent text from being copied, let alone normal copying. -! • Blurring of article previews. -! • Custom embedded cursors. -! • Domains that major tech groups lost the ownership of. -! • Empty padding (Extra much so on macOS). -! • External IMDB rating embeds. -! • Extraordinarily dumb comment sections. -! • Falling snow on pages. -! • General annoyances on Dailymotion/Wikia. -! • Gradients when moving your mouse on video embeds. -! • IP addresses that host only malware domains and nothing else. -! • Large subscription promo banners. -! • Malicious or tracker-inserting adblockers. -! • Mobile app download banners. -! • Opt-out autoplay on video sites. -! • PC "optimiser" sponsorships. -! • Prayer time clocks on newssites. -! • Softens and modernises Japanese fonts on Windows. -! • The "Anonymous animal" bubbles on Google Docs. -! • Unnecessary login prompts. -! • URL parameters believed to be unnecessary or trackers. -! What this broad compilation does not block:Newsletters, cookie banners, social media links to company pages +! Note: If you view this file through filters.adtity.org and there's a lot of broken text in the file view, feel free to give an upvote to https://github.com/AdguardTeam/FiltersRegistry/issues/1142 if you wish to. + +! The included files and what they block in AdGuard and uBO: +! • Dandelion Sprout's Anti-Malware List +! ⌘ IP addresses that host only malware domains and nothing else. +! ⌘ Domains that major tech groups lost the ownership of. +! ⌘ PC "optimiser" sponsorships. +! ⌘ Malicious or tracker-inserting adblockers. + +! • Actually Legitimate URL Shortener List +! ⌘ URL parameters believed to be unnecessary or trackers. + +! • Social Share List +! ⌘ Non-"Social media" sites' links to social media pages. +! ⌘ "Share page" buttons. + +! • I Don't Want to Download Your Browser +! ⌘ "Download [browser/Acrobat]" buttons. + +! • Anti-"Snow marketing" List +! ⌘ Falling snow on pages, which are either obstructing the page view, are CPU-intensive, or both. + +! • Empty Padding Remover +! ⌘ Gradients when moving your mouse on video embeds. +! ⌘ A few sites' empty whitespace boxes. + +! • Anti-"Functionality Removal" List +! ⌘ Attempts to prevent text from being copied, let alone normal copying. + +! • Anti-"Prayer Times" List +! ⌘ Prayer time clocks on newssites. + +! • Falukorv List +! ⌘ Blockings of sites in lists where there seems to be insufficient reasons to block them. +! ⌘ Failsafes in case any lists have catastrophically miswritten entry syntaxes. + +! • Anti-"IMDb on non-IMDb sites" List +! ⌘ Search engines and non-IMDb movie info sites' displaying of IMDb scores, so that users will no longer feel insulted if their favourite shows have a score of around 4.7. + +! • Stop Autoplay on Video Sites +! ⌘ Prevents videos from automatically jumping to other and often unrelated videos after having finished. + +! • Anti-"Awful comments" List +! ⌘ Certain truly awful comment sections that contain only loud screaming, incoherence, and/or absolute nonsense. + +! • Browse Websites Without Logging In +! ⌘ Unnecessary login prompts. +! ⌘ A few sites' gradient blurring of article previews. + +! • Dandelion Sprout's African Languages List +! ⌘ Aims to block ads on a few websites that are only in languages that are not widely spoken outside Africa (Swahili, Amharic, Hausa, etc.) + +! • Ad Removal List for Unusual Ads +! ⌘ Fake sections on coupon sites that are not actually coupons. +! ⌘ Ads and annoyances that are specific to Windows desktop programs. +! ⌘ Extraordinarily obtrusive premium service banners. +! ⌘ Spammer sections about casinos or slot machines. + +! DailyMotion Simplicity / Know Your Meme: Pure Browsing Experience / Wikia: Pure Browsing Experiences +! ⌘ General annoyances on the sites in question. + +! • Annoyance List's main file +! ⌘ Certain sites' entry types that are of relevance to pretty no one. +! ⌘ The "Anonymous animal" bubbles on Google Docs. +! ⌘ Obvious honey traps that sites use to detect adblockers. +! ⌘ YouTube's "Recommended for You" entries in the right-side suggestions bar. +! ⌘ Various other oddities. + +! • (Windows, macOS, and Linux only) Anti-"Custom Cursors" List +! ⌘ Custom embedded cursors. + +! • (Android and iOS only) Staying on the Phone Browser +! ⌘ Mobile app download banners. + +! • (Windows only) Japanese Text Softener +! ⌘ Hardcoding by sites to use the worst font ever made (MS PGothic), and rare cases of other bad fonts. +! ⌘ Blurring of a few sites' article previews. + +! • (macOS only) Dandelion Sprout's Website Stretcher +! ⌘ Makes some websites use much more of the screen width, instead of just a thin central column. + + +! What this broad compilation does not block:Newsletters, cookie banners, social media links to companies' pages @@ -399,7 +457,7 @@ github.com##.clearfix:has(h1:has-text(/^Uploading files .*NorwegianExperimentalL -! Discord ads for Perplexity Aİ; intended to be a temporary entry until https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/issues/214541 has been handled +! Discord ads for Perplexity Aİ. &client_ad_session_id= ! Pretty high up on "Things practically no one asked for": What seems to be a video newsfeed in the upper left of a game's main menu