Domains for third-party requests

[dimqua]

Hi there, I noticed that your blocklists contain domains from rules like this: ||example.com^$third-party.
Why block them?

[swiftlyfalling]

@dimqua: The configuration specific to that is currently here:

ci/convertlists.py

Line 556 in 7d0d153

# For Adblock Plus format filter lists, include domain-only entries with the solo option "third-party"

Did you encounter a situation in which including these entries is problematic?

I suppose it would be possible to provide separate versions of the converted lists with them included and excluded.

[argonym]

Hi @swiftlyfalling, the EasyLists are primarily meant for blocking inside browsers. In contrast, your justdomains are primarily used for DNS-based blocking. At least that's how we are using them.
So in case of DNS-based blocking it's obviously impossible to distinguish 2nd from 3rd party sites, and some over-blocking of domains flagged with the third-party option is to be expected.

Here are two particular peculiar cases:

download.microsoft.com         CNAME  20    Answer     2-01-4ca6-0004.cdx.cedexis.net

download.windowsupdate.com     CNAME  18    Answer     wu-fg-shim.trafficmanager.net
wu-fg-shim.trafficmanager.net  CNAME  18    Answer     2-01-3cf7-0009.cdx.cedexis.net

cedexis.net ist contained in easyprivacy with third-party. Seems to be a large DNS+CDN(+Tracking) provider.

Use cases vary. I think your approach of two versions of each list makes a lot of sense, and I'd appreciate if you made it happen. :)

[argonym]

@dimqua, why did you close this issue? Am I missing something?

[dimqua]

@argonym I thought that the project is no longer maintained, but I was wrong. Only this repository isn't maintained.

[argonym]

@dimqua: Please re-open this issue, as it still exists (regardless of the state of the project).
Maybe @swiftlyfalling is inclined to implement the change/feature. Or somebody else stumbling over it might make a PR.