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A web privacy measurement framework

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AdBlock Plus crawls do not appear correct

englehardt opened this issue · comments

ABP crawls seem to fail to block a significant portion of trackers. I'm guess this has something to do with list distribution for the crawls, such that the block lists never have a chance to load on stateless crawls. The solution is likely to preload up-to-date lists when the crawl starts and stop the extension from checking for updates.

Re-opening. I don't believe this is fully fixed.

I decided to remove ABP support due to this bug. uBlock Origin supports the same lists and is easier to configure. Closing via #152.