Built-in Chinalist needs update

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?

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.

Thanks gorhill! Keep up the good work!