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@Alex-302 Alex-302 commented Aug 6, 2025

Some popular sites uses static.adsafeprotected.com in anti-adblock checks (sure, in addition to analytics)

The most recent - https://www.cwtv.com/

We need to decide whether to unblock this domain.

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hagezi commented Aug 6, 2025

I would only allow static.adsafeprotected.com and not remove the entire rule. pixel.adsafeprotected.com apparently also leads to restrictions on some pages, see:

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However, this would have to be verified again.

Subdomains on current Top 1M lists (Cloudflare, Umbrella, Tranco, ...):

3denvironments.adsafeprotected.com
cdn.adsafeprotected.com
diag.adsafeprotected.com
dt.adsafeprotected.com
fw.adsafeprotected.com
iefw.adsafeprotected.com
iepixel.adsafeprotected.com
jppixel.adsafeprotected.com
mobile.adsafeprotected.com
ordt.adsafeprotected.com
orfw.adsafeprotected.com
orpixel.adsafeprotected.com
orvideo.adsafeprotected.com
pixel.adsafeprotected.com
sgfw.adsafeprotected.com
sgpixel.adsafeprotected.com
spixel.adsafeprotected.com
static.adsafeprotected.com
tp.adsafeprotected.com
unified.adsafeprotected.com
vadt.adsafeprotected.com
vafw.adsafeprotected.com
vapixel.adsafeprotected.com
vast.adsafeprotected.com
vavideo.adsafeprotected.com
video.adsafeprotected.com
wrapper-vast.adsafeprotected.com

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Alex-302 commented Aug 7, 2025

@hagezi That line removes only exact rule. More specific rules will not be removed.
Updated.

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hagezi commented Aug 7, 2025

@Alex-302 I actually meant that instead of removing the rule ||adsafeprotected.com^ via exclusions, it would be better to include the subdomain as an exception, i.e. @@||static.adsafeprotected.com^. Then further subdomains are blocked and only this one subdomain is unblocked.

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Alex-302 commented Aug 7, 2025

@hagezi Yes, we can. But when users see @@ rules, they decide that we are preventing ad blocking and come up with conspiracy theories)

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hagezi commented Aug 7, 2025

I know... 😉

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