Rick752's EasyList Subscriptions

The EasyList, EasyElement, and the Tracking Filter are 3 free separate adblocking subscriptions created & maintained by rick752 (yours truly) for the #1 "most popular" Mozilla add-on ... Adblock Plus!

Adblock Plus, an ad & content-blocking program is a free add-on for use in the Firefox & Seamonkey web browsers. Adblock Plus, is the #1 "Most Popular" add-on for the Firefox & Seamonkey Web Browsers, has made PC World's "Top 100 Products of 2007"

<<< All EasyList subscriptions can be added instantly simply by clicking on the links in the left column (#1,2,3).

What you may not know about Adblock Plus and filters:

"Faqs & common misconceptions about Adblock Plus & Filtering"

.....by rick752

Three Different Filter Subscriptions for Adblock Plus for Three Different Reasons

Add one, two, or all three different 'Rick752' subscriptions to Adblock Plus and get rid of ads and other nasty web annoyances that rob your time & bandwidth and try to spy on you.

The 3 EasyList subscriptions:

1. The EasyList (items never downloaded):
   The EasyList is the "main" subscription. It blocks image ads, flash ads, script ads ... and also (by default) it will block many cookies, trackers, & spyware issues associated with those same blocked sites. All the filters in this subscription 'block' the ads from being downloaded at all. The EasyList should be added before using either of the other two 'optional' subscriptions.
2. The EasyElement (downloaded but hidden):
   The EasyElement is a subscription that is used to clean up html-embedded text advertising (except for Google Adsense which is blocked in the EasyList). It is also used to clean up any certain spaces that may be left over from regular adblocking (like from the EasyList).
3. The Tracking Filter (blocks tracking) :
   Help protect your privacy with the Tracking Filter subscription. They all work great together.
   .... and best of all ... THEY'RE ALL FREE!

Here we find a classic example of totally annoying advertising.

First, you've got the big, bright and 'annoyingly animated' top flash ad that pretty much steals 1/4 of your top-viewable screen space. Add to that, the even more annoying flash ad in the left column that masquerades itself as a 'mini-game' when actually it is just a link to a site selling ringtones (I thought that this annoying scumbag tactic went away ... obviously not).

Trying to read the page's content now becomes very difficult as these ads are trying to distract you from what you are trying to do there (remember that these ads are dancing, flashing, sliding, and moving all the time). It's amazing that you can even concentrate on the page's content at all!

So what can you do? ......

What Adblock Plus and the "ad-blocking" EasyList subscription will do:

Here is the same page using Adblock Plus with the EasyList subscription filter. This filter blocks image, script, and flash type ads quickly from the page at the source. These ads are never downloaded with the EasyList so the page downloads much quicker and saves you bandwidth. Blocking these allows you an undistracted view of your content. The page becomes much more tolerable viewing it.

But what about text ads and leftover empty spaces? ....

Cleaning up even more with the supplementary EasyElement "element-hiding" subscription:

This is the same page (again) after adding the EasyElement subscription. The EasyElement cleans up leftover spaces left by the EasyList Subscription. It also will remove text ads and some other nuisances on many major websites. Notice that the top bar is even tighter than it was ... and the black box left over from removing the flash ad in the left column is gone now. It "tightens up" the page to make it more easy to view and read.

Unlike the Easylist, this subscription only hides the elements ... they are still downloaded. The EasyElement ismainly for visual effectiveness.

Now scroll back and look at the first picture again ..... and ask yourself why you have to deal with this crap when you don't have to!??

.... it looks great, doesn't it? Gotta love it!

(1) Rick752's EasyList

Add the EasyList subscription to ABP

This is the general main list ... for blocking major global image, script, and flash-type ads
(these are blocked at the source .. never downloaded)

The EasyList filter for Adblock Plus contains aggressive filters designed to block many of the biggest and most common advertisements. This increases your page viewing real estate, saves you download time & bandwidth, and makes trying to read the 'real' information on sites a lot easier.

Thousands of distracting and annoying ads are blocked "at the source" along with their scripts and tracking cookies. Pages are much more readable without all the flashing and advertisement 'intrusions'.

(2) Rick752's EasyElement

Add the EasyElement subscription to ABP

For getting rid of text ads and leftover spaces
(should only be used as an additional filter to the EasyList)

After regular ad-blocking with the EasyList, you may find leftover spaces and 'sponsored' text ads still in the pages. The EasyElement 'element-hiding' filter was designed to remove a majority of these from many major websites. Unlike the EasyList, these items are only hidden, and NOT 'blocked at the source' like the EasyList. They are mostly just for visual effectiveness. Because element "hides" are usually very specific to each particular site, I have concentrated mostly on the larger, more popular, globally-used sites.

You can also add elements yourself with the new Adblock Plus "Element Hiding Helper" extension on AMO. EHH is a supplemental extension to Adblock Plus that was created by ABP author, Wladimir Palant. Get it here:

(3) Rick752/Cedric's Tracking Filter
This subscription is a combined effort of the authors of the EasyList (myself) & Cedric's Liste ...... this is made to be a supplement of either subscription to stop tracking that is not automatically removed by our regular 'general' subscriptions.

Add the ABP Tracking Filter

For blocking major web tracking, market analysis, and web bugs that invade your privacy.

Tired of sites tracking your every move? This wll help and block a lot of cookies too. This subscription contains only web tracking strings ... nothing for ads.

Easylist Advantages:

* The EasyList has been designed to be a comprehensive, easy to understand list made up of 'simple expression' strings ...  which are the preferred and most optimized type of strings for Adblock Plus. The list is fast, very powerful and does a great job of blocking ads with minimal false-positives and whitelisting. In a benchmark test against Filterset.G, the EasyList (with its whitelisting strings included) processed at more than twice as fast as Fiterset.G's filter without G's additional whitelisting filter in Adblock Plus!

* The EasyList makes it possible to easily "enable/disable" any SINGLE filter string ... and the list is VERY precise with Adblock Plus 0.7's "hit counts" feature.

* The EasyList & EasyElement filters will NOT interfere with any 'self added' filtering, any other subscriptions, or any sites that you have marked as whitelisted when used in Adblock Plus 0.7. (***The only exception here is that the element-hides in the EasyElement filter cannot be whitelisted)

* None of these filters need any added extension to automatically update. Adblock 0.7's subscription updater includes the option to either manually update a subscription or automatically update a subscription once approximately every 5 or 6 days.

Privacy Statement:

The Rick752 EasyList, EasyElement, and ABP Tracking Filter subscriptions are filter lists for the Mozilla Adblock Plus extension. These subscriptions are plain text files that's only purpose is to create a blacklist in Adblock Plus to block unwanted web page items to work in conjunction with the Adblock Plus for Mozilla extension. These files will NEVER contain any extra code to track, execute, exploit or extract information if selected from the rick752 or the adblockplus.org websites or from the 'subscription suggestions' in Adblock Plus 0.7.