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easylist is a Python library typically used in Security, Privacy applications. easylist has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has medium support. However easylist build file is not available. You can download it from GitHub.

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easylist has a medium active ecosystem.

It has 997 star(s) with 464 fork(s). There are 52 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 6 months.

There are 346 open issues and 2716 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 1 days. There are 518 open pull requests and 0 closed requests.

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It has 314 lines of code, 12 functions and 1 files.

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Takes a filter in a filter string and returns a list of filenames
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Server-side Tag Manager/App Engine/Ad blocker: Any way to customize endpoint URL?

Add/Use EasyList type Of URLs Manually With Thunderbird Or Add AdBlock/uBlock-Origin/Alt Addon

QUESTION

Server-side Tag Manager/App Engine/Ad blocker: Any way to customize endpoint URL?

Asked 2021-Oct-04 at 08:47

I'm trying to keep count of the visitors to my blog (I'm using a static site published on Github Pages) and for that purpose I'm using Google Analytics 4.

But I realized that ad blockers such as uBlock Origin block request to tag manager or analytics domains and even URL path segments like /gtm.js or /gtag/js?, see EasyPrivacy. So making the metric not very realistic as many people is using browser ad-blocking extensions.

I've been reading recent articles about server side tagging, and how it can be used to deploy an App Engine instance for Tag Manager, and bypass ad blocking (between other goals). But as far as I can understand, doing it this way could bypass the domain blocking (e.g. www.googletagmanager.com), as tag manager becomes a first-party under your managed domain. But not to circumvent the blocking rules based on URL path. So,

Is there any way to configure the server side tag manager to serve the JS scripts in different custom paths so that become impossible to block? If so, how can it be configured?
In case it's possible, should I use directly the analytics script?

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ANSWER

Answered 2021-Oct-03 at 23:18

Seems like you're misunderstanding the concept of server-side GTM.

The idea here is that the endpoint of your server-side GTM (the G Engine instance) is never exposed on front-end.

So your back-end sends events to your App Engine instance, not the front-end. You typically don't need to deploy ANY code on the front-end. All logic is supposed to be set up solely on the backend. By your back-end developers. Your backend usually can listen to all the important events that are happening seemingly on the front-end. Like page navigations, form submissions, purchases, etc.

You still can send seemingly front-end events to your server-side GTM. But you have to be smart about it. You don't want to expose your real GTM endpoint exactly to avoid bots, "hackers" and adblockers.

So what you do instead, is:

Build a custom "mirror" endpoint on your backend the main idea of which is to relay everything it gets to your App Engine GTM endpoint. Actually, it doesn't matter where you build the mirror endpoint. Your backend team would likely frown upon the idea of analytics contributing to "their" repos, so it may be a good idea to own your endpoint.
Add protection, data enrichment, validation and logging to your mirror endpoint. It's optional, but it's good to have.
Now use your new endpoint for the rare cases when you need to add front-end tracking to your existing back-end tracking. Addblockers will still block your front-end GTM, so you likely want to use something else (NOT a TMS) for your front-end code.
Optionally, add some back-end logic to synchronize client ids between the backend events and your mirror endpoint events. And it's a lot easier if your mirror lives with your main back-end codebase, keep it in mind.

Yes, server-side brings a lot of elegant solutions to modern tracking. It, however, requires the implementation specialists to be full-stack web-devs. And it's not typical for the industry. In fact, it's rare for the implementators to have even mid-JS dev skills, not mentioning full-stack or REST API experience.

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69429205

QUESTION

Add/Use EasyList type Of URLs Manually With Thunderbird Or Add AdBlock/uBlock-Origin/Alt Addon

Asked 2020-Oct-03 at 08:52

How can I add EasyList type of URLs manually into Thunderbird? Or, how can I add AdBlock or uBlock-Origin or Alternative addon into Thunderbird?

DETAILS+EXTRA INFO:

Thunderbird is primarily an email client, but it can also do many other functions: instant-messaging/chat, it can do various type of interactions with various types of webservices to obtain user-preferred data, it also contains lightweight web-browser.

I'm using Thunderbird v68.11.0 on MacOS 10.15.0 (64bit-only) (Catalina).
I also use TB on Windows10.

I use "BrowseInTab" addon inside TB to open a browser tab in TB, to access email websites directly inside TB, for those email-service providers who do not provide free IMAPS/POPS/SMTPS service.

As of July-2020, there is NO AdBlock or AdBlockPlus or any alternative addon (uBlock-origin,etc) available directly from Thunderbird-addons site. AdBlock addon stopped appearing in search results inside TB.

ISSUES: Some ADs play/show not only images, but videos too (or very fast changing (aka, animated) GIFs), & show too many annoying/flashing or adult contents, etc , Multiple ADs are shown even inside multiple popups inside a single browsing tab, and began to consume too much computing resources, and those activities reach to a point where TB consumes much more computing-resource than even a video player! I can tolerate up to: simple & small-size TEXT based ADs, or tiny-image based non-annoying & small ADs , I can also tolerate if+when they use very-very less-amount of computing resources ONLY-WHEN computer-hardwares go into IDLE mode or when AD uses resources in lowest-priority mode, ( but even then those activities are still using/consuming/occupying memory/files/etc 😞 ).
Big Problems are: most ADs & their supporters & their implementors are invading Privacy or intrusive or profiling or harvesting/mining/STEALING user's data, etc thus breaking Privacy-Rights, and did not obtain my/user's specific fully-aware consent/permission before showing each specific AD, and did not obtain my/user's permission to consume my/user's computing-resources & deprive my/user's actual works/programs, etc.

EasyList contain list of websites that has list of AD-providers, privacy invaders, etc . There are also few other lists (EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe’s ad/tracking/malware servers, Malicious URL Blocklist, uBlock-Origin, etc) for listing harmful actors, exploiters, Spammers, adult-AD-sites, malware/virus-distributors, user's-data-miners, etc.
Here i will use just "EasyList",etc to indicate all of those various lists.

Please suggest solutions+instructions for these:

how can i load AdBlock or uBlock-origin addon into Thunderbird ?
or, AdBlock/uBlockOrigin alternative addon for TB ?
or, how to manually extract/obtain the EasyList or similar-list that is used by AdBlock or similar addon to block ADs,
how to manually add/join/combine those to create one final combined list & how to add it into TB or use for TB ? i'm ok with using 'regex' on TextMate,etc.
as AdBlock (or uBlock-Origin) is now(July-2020) Not-available do i need to use another addon to load the URL list & use it to block or redirect into void ?
or, how to convert EasyList type of lists into a standard-URL list ? how to copy-paste that directly+manually into system's /etc/hosts file, to block all those websites/URLs ?
or, how to convert EasyList based URLs into standard-URL list, & how to configure PF-firewall on MacOS to block sites based-on URLs/website-address (aka: domain-name) (and not-only based-on IP-adrs) ?

I would prefer solutions for above cases/requests that utilize or compatible-with these : scripts,parsers,etc that is using or compatible-with Bash [v3.2.57(1)], Perl [perl 5, version 18, subversion 4 (v5.18.4)], etc, Or source-code of C/objC based programs compile-able on [Xcode command-line-tools(CLT) 11.5, Apple clang version 11.0.3 (clang-1103.0.32.62), Target: x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0, Thread model: posix, MacOSX/Catalina/64bit, LLVM 9.0.0, Swift 5.2.4] and gcc/mingw64 on Windows], or manual instructions, etc.

IDEAS/PARTIAL-SOLUTIONS:
I'm adding helpful & more links/ideas related to above sections, so that an answer provider/giver can get more ideas on how to create helpful answer more quickly & easily, to answer my question:

AdBlockPlus-easylist parser, but python based.
add an anchor in /etc/pf.conf file like this (for MacOS):
cmd: nano "/etc/pf.conf" (then add below 2-lines):
   anchor "myBlocklist"
   load anchor "myBlocklist" from "/etc/pf.anchors/myBlocklist"
cmd: nano "/etc/pf.anchors/myBlocklist" (then add IP-adrs list like below line. in below only 1-example IP-adrs line is shown)
   block drop log quick on en0 from any to 1.2.3.4
hopefull, atleast uBlock-origin will come with a solution for absence in Thunderbird, otoh may be my hopes are too high . ( Can someone help by placing more requests for a TB release in their github site? ).
download easylist,etc type of list file , parse easylist,etc to combine into one file , replace code portions to have correct+full URLs, apply in /etc/hosts.

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ANSWER

Answered 2020-Sep-14 at 07:50

SOLUTION # 1 :
Use uBlock addon in Thunderbird(TB) :
Load uBlock in this way (summary: download addon XPI file from Firefox addon site, then load XPI into Thunderbird):

Goto Mozilla Firefox Addons site :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
search for "uBlock" or "uBlock Origin" addon, search result should show it, go into it, make sure it is from Developer "Raymond Hill".
right-click on [ + Add to Firefox ] button, & choose the option "Save link as" or something similar (if you use different than Firefox).
save the XPI file ublock_origin-1.28.4-an+fx.xpi in your Downloads ( ~/Downloads ) folder.
goto/start Thunderbird > Tools > Addons >
find the line that shows "Manage Your Extensions", there is a ⚙ "GEAR" button in its right-side, that gear also has a tiny ▼ down-arrow symbol next to it, to indicate it has a drop-down menu/options, Click on that dropdown option,
choose "Install Add-on From File" option > browse into Downloads folder & choose the ublock_origin-1.28.4-an+fx.xpi file > "Open" >
select "Accept" to permit/allow it to access what it needs to >
select "Done"/"Ok".
now its available for use in Thunderbird.
Goto its "Preferences" button to configure further, if you need to.
i have tried it, tested it, works great. Options can be set as well.

Note: this is a good temporary solution for now until uBlock devs release correct replacement. So we do need to request uBlock-Origin devs in Github (here i think) to release a correct one correctly for the Thunderbird.

SOLUTION # 2 :
Create a combined block-list, & apply on where applicable, i.e /etc/hosts file:
Here(Reddit:/r/pihole) is a bash & perl script combination, that can obtain various latest list file, then combine them, Thank to the dev who posted it there 4yrs ago. Links are not right there anymore, etc, but script commands are valid, and needs lots of improvements . A simple adaptation is shown below, you must understand coding pattern & reason, & modify further yourself:

MacOS (upto Catalina/10.15 or BugSur/11.0) pre-includes various Unix & Linux tools, so below commands, examples, etc are valid for it directly without any further package-manager. And you may try MacPorts for more+latest Unix+Linux tools, (Homebrew package-manager does-not respect Privacy-Rights ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ...}, so choice is yours).
In Windows, please get Cygwin package manager to get Unix, Linux tools, in Cygwin based (bash)-shell you can use/run below commands, examples, etc . Instead of Cygwin you can also obtain MSYS2 shell for the mingw64 toolchain, as you indicated you want to use those Open-Source tools to develop/compile programs . Windows10 also allows to get Debian-GNU/Linux from AppStore, its not complete but should be sufficient for development related purpose, so you may use that also if you need GNU/Linux . And another option is Homebrew package-manager but it does-not respect Privacy-Rights, so choice is yours.
content of easylist.pl file : this script will go thru a file and filter out anything that doesn't match a domain name, which will allow you to use lists in the easylist format.

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63284885

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Install easylist

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You can use easylist like any standard Python library. You will need to make sure that you have a development environment consisting of a Python distribution including header files, a compiler, pip, and git installed. Make sure that your pip, setuptools, and wheel are up to date. When using pip it is generally recommended to install packages in a virtual environment to avoid changes to the system.

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EasyList, EasyPrivacy, and Fanboy lists are used in a number of extensions and browsers such as Adblock Plus, uBlock Origin, AdBlock, AdGuard, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi.

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