Using EasyPrivacy results in piwik being blocked, yes, regardless whether EasyPrivacy is used in uBlock, ABP, or whatever other blocker. I suggested you to bring the issue to EasyPrivacy maintainers if you think it's wrong[1], but by all appearances your grudge is solely aimed at uBlock.
Do you want it to block first-party trackers? I am much more tolerant of trackers (and ads) if they are per-site rather than being run by a few huge data-gatherers, as there's much less privacy impact that way.
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Does ublock still block crash reporters like newrelic and self hosted party statistics like piwik?
PS, I had major issues on two mainstream travel sites with ublock. It made then unusable with ublocksl's default settings.
Using EasyPrivacy results in piwik being blocked, yes, regardless whether EasyPrivacy is used in uBlock, ABP, or whatever other blocker. I suggested you to bring the issue to EasyPrivacy maintainers if you think it's wrong[1], but by all appearances your grudge is solely aimed at uBlock.
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/564#issuecomment-70...
Easy privacy also blocks pusher.com which is used by thousands of sites for realtime stuff. It's far too aggressive and should not be on by default.
That's probably the reason it is in EasyPrivacy.
In EasyPrivacy, I see: "||stats.pusher.com^"
When I put "stats.pusher.com" in the browser address bar, I get a page which only says, in plain text:
"stats.pusher.com" is also present in MVPS and hpHosts.
Edit:
The stats.pusher.com issue was brought to EasyPrivacy maintainer: https://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=20744
Easy privacy is not included as the defaults in other tools like abp. Thus ublock does differ here in a big way.
By default ublock blocks piwik and abp doesn't. That is a major difference.
Edit: why is a factual response down voted?
I downvoted you before you edited out the axe grinding.
Do you want it to block first-party trackers? I am much more tolerant of trackers (and ads) if they are per-site rather than being run by a few huge data-gatherers, as there's much less privacy impact that way.
I don't but last time I checked ublock blocks all instances of piwik no matter where.
Piwki would be fine if it was hosted on a subdomain of the first party domain.
If you visit test.com, piwki.test.com would work. However, piwik.not-test.com would be blocked.
Last time I check piwik is always blocked no matter the host.
Yeah, you're right. In the latest release, piwik is blocked. I hadn't tried it recently.