Popular ad filtering rule EasyList is under denial of service attack

An anonymous reader wrote : “The maintainers of the popular ad-filtering list EasyList have seen a rapid increase in traffic in recent weeks, the source of the growth likely coming from a deeply flawed Indian Android browser that frequently fetches rules lists. EasyList is hosted on GitHub and uses Cloudflare’s proxy service, but the free version of Cloudflare does not allow so much traffic. After the maintainer contacted the support engineer, they were told that the hosted TXT text format file was non-web content and violated the terms of service. The engineer suggested that it With a subdomain, Cloudflare no longer caches and proxies it in TXT text format. It’s unclear how EasyList, a volunteer-driven project, will accept donations to keep hosting, or change the domain name – impact Many projects relying on it? Adguard ran into the same situation last November, but using its own network infrastructure and consuming 100TB of traffic per month just to return ‘rejected requests’.”

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