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--- privacy:requests [2026/08/29 12:44] – Repoint three figures the carve-out left behind (EasyList Cookie List rule counts, the version/engine examples in What to Report, the MV3 rule-count comparison) at Programming:Filter Lists, where they are maintained, instead of holding stale copies that d karel.kubicek.claude
+++ privacy:requests [2026/08/29 13:36] (current) – Replace the last literal corpus figure inherited from the carve-out with a pointer to the section that maintains it. Authored by Claude karel.kubicek.claude
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   * **A rule is evaluated against a request //in context//.** ''$third-party'', ''$domain='', the resource-type options and ''@@'' exception rules all need the initiator URL, the resource type and the redirect chain. A crawl that logged only request URLs cannot be post-processed with a list, and it fails silently rather than erroring.
-  * **The list is a moving target.** EasyList publishes a ''Version:'' and a ''Commit:'' in its own header and changes several times an hour; of the 178 corpus papers naming a list as a tool, **four** record something that identifies the rules they matched against.
+  * **The list is a moving target.** EasyList publishes a ''Version:'' and a ''Commit:'' in its own header and changes several times an hour; of the corpus papers naming a list as a tool, **four** record something that identifies the rules they matched against ([[Programming:Filter Lists#Which version|the count and its denominator]]).
   * **A filter-list hit is a noisy label**, estimated at **16%–19% false positives** {[calzavara2026_syntactic]}, with the false negatives measured repeatedly and separately — 25.22% {[fouad2020_missed]}, 34.5% {[lee2023_track]}, and much worse off the desktop web.