Built-in Chinalist needs update

[ghost]

In case gorhill is not aware, Adblock Chinalist is now Easylist China, the old address no longer receives any update.

Here is the blog post where they talked about the change: https://adblockplus.org/blog/switching-default-blocking-lists-for-chinese-users

Direct link to the rule:https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylistchina/raw-file/3bdb853c440b/easylistchina.txt

One more question, I'm not sure if this has been covered before, but do you have any plans to add abp subscription support in the near future?

Thanks!

[gorhill]

https://hg.adblockplus.org/easylistchina/raw-file/3bdb853c440b/easylistchina.txt

This looks like a URL to a specific revision. Is there a link that's immutable? I pull using a script to avoid having to do it manually (tedious).

abp subscription support

You mean automatic update?

[ghost]

https://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

abp:subscribe?location=https%3A%2F%2Feasylist-downloads.adblockplus.org%2Feasylistchina.txt&title=EasyList%20China&requiresLocation=https%3A%2F%2Feasylist-downloads.adblockplus.org%2Feasylist.txt&requiresTitle=EasyList

Um, not sure what the real URL is...

By saying abp subscription support I mean something like adding a third-party subscription and ... um .. auto updates. I'm not sure if httpsb is meant to be sort of a more powerful and full replacement for abp. I use some non-easylist subscriptions, and that's why I ask.

[gorhill]

Ah this works: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylistchina.txt (extracted from the subscription link you gave). Since the license allows copying, I will add it to the list of lists.

HTTPSB was more meant to be itself, but people started to compare with RequestPolicy (which I didn't know existed back then), and after seeing RequestPolicy, it's true that it's close to a mix of RequestPolicy which can also control cookies, scripts etc.

The parsing of Adblock rules started more by accident, it was at first just to extract whole strictly domain-based rules which translated directly into the matrix. Than people suggested I support all the rules, which eventually I went along with, and also suggested that I support element hiding rules, which I also eventually went along.

So it is definitively not my intention to be an ad blocker, it's a security/privacy tool, the fact that it can replace an ad blocker is incidental. Element hiding rules add nothing to privacy neither security but I got sucked into it because of Adblock Plus blaming Firefox for the memory problem... Heh.

Anyways, all this just to say that it's best to see the extension as a security/privacy tool in order to not create false expectations, the rest is icing on the cake.

As for update, it's done manually in the About tab, and for external subscriptions, I do not plan to support this in the short/medium term. I guess I will have to support this eventually, as this does not seem realistic for the project to hold all the lists in the world.

[ghost]

Thanks gorhill! Keep up the good work!