Flawless Filters: Highly Refined Filter List for uBlock Origin

[FranklyFlawless]

FlawlessFilters

In order to surgically debloat my web browsing experience, I have created a highly refined filter list stylized for uBlock Origin utilizing a powerful combination of HTML, cosmetic, and static filters. It is designed to work in compatibility with uBlock Origin’s default filter lists without any additional configuration while being optimized for performance on the Librem 5:

• uBlock filters
  • uBlock filters – Ads
  • uBlock filters – Badware risks
  • uBlock filters – Privacy
  • uBlock filters – Quick Fixes
  • uBlock filters – Unbreak
• EasyList
• AdGuard – Mobile Ads (only enabled by default if mobile device is detected)
• EasyPrivacy
• Online Malicious URL Blocklist
• Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list

Currently the main document is formatted as a nested tree structure for an easy-to-read experience with commented lines and organized by highest to lowest priority:

• Global Filters:
  • Network Filters:
    1. Google Sign-In Inline Frame
    2. Urchin Tracking Module
    3. Matomo Campaign Tracking
• KVR Audio:
• Etc…

Here is what the Google Sign-In Inline Frame looks like on Reddit:

After applying my filter lisr, this is what Reddit looks like:

To use the filter list with uBlock Origin, open the Dashboard → Filter Lists tab, then under the Import... dropdown menu, add this URL:

https://codeberg.org/FranklyFlawless/FlawlessFilters/raw/branch/main/filter-list.txt

Related:

Removing URL Parameters

This is a basic guide to removing URL parameters using uBlock Origin by creating static filter rules. Q: What are URL parameters? A: They are parameters with values appended after the URL, usually for analytic and tracking purposes. Example (everything past the TLD and subsequent forward slash): https://www.example.com/?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=forum&mtm_content=f-introducing-the-librem-11 Install uBlock Origin on a compatible browser, such as Firefox ESR. …

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Don’t forget to change or clean your filter every 3 months.

[FranklyFlawless]

What is problematic about how web browsing works now is that I have to test both desktops and mobile layouts on different devices. For example, on KVR Audio Forum, some boards have nonfunctional ad-injection blocks on mobile, but are not present on desktop:

Before:

After:

Related:

The General Purpose Computer In Your Pocket – Purism

@Kyle_Rankin

One of the neatest tricks Big Tech ever pulled was convincing people that phones weren’t general-purpose computers and should have different rules than laptops or desktops. These rules conveniently give the vendor more control so that you don’t own a smartphone so much as you rent it. Now that the public has accepted these new rules for phones, vendors are starting to apply the same rules to laptops and desktops.