Solved Track blocker breaks sites (EasyPrivacy list)

[Pathduck]

I did an investigation into this. Couldn't figure out why it seemed to break all third-party requests and completely nerfing sites. There were no blocker rules in the EasyPrivacy file that seemed to be triggering. Very confusing.

But then I had a look at the end of the file Vivaldi got from its own servers:

||ranking-counter.de^$third-party
||

So, that last rule basically nukes everything - all 3rd-party requests will be blocked. No wonder then. It looks like the file has been cut off, and at the worst possible place too.

Compare to the current source file:
https://easylist.to/easylist/easyprivacy.txt

Fortunately it looks like someone at Vivaldi has realised this as well, and the Vivaldi file now returns a blank - I'm assuming so it won't break for more users, until they figure out the cause:
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/easylist/easyprivacy-current.txt

So just do a reload of the blocklist source (off-on), it will return "not fetched". Then just wait for a fix. Or if you're the impatient sort, add the official source yourself - but be warned its on a slow-a** pipe.

[ceveld]

Suddenly this morning my Vivaldi browser stopped working properly. It only displays a text version of webpages. I am unable to open my Gmail accounts. In fact, I was in the middle of using Gmail when it suddenly told me I was offline. Gmail also gave me the 400 error - with something like - Bad Request.

Neeva and every other webpage has the same problem displaying only a text version of the page.

I had just updated Vivaldi to the latest one available.

I rolled back Vivaldi by uninstalling and reinstalling the last version. Still the same problem.

I cleared Vivaldi's cache and history, restarted Vivaldi. Still the same problem.

I restarted Windows. Still the same problem.

I am having the same trouble on two of my computers. I haven't been able to check the rest yet to see if they have the same problem.

What is going on? How can I fix this?

This is troublesome as Vivaldi is the main browser I use and I must submit this support request this via different browser.

Here is the neeva.com page as my browser is currently rendering it.

[Pathduck]

@ceveld Hi, see the posts in this topic. I have merged the threads.

If you want a fix, disable the EasyPrivacy tracker list in Settings > Privacy > Show Sources > Tracker blocking sources. Or just reload it and wait for a fix.

It's caused by a broken blocker list on Vivaldi's server, currently it returns nothing (which hopefully will stop more users seeing this if it updates).

[jwalsoe]

Started to see this today. Using ad/ tracker blocking makes most Internet sites unusable. By looking at console output it looks like Vivaldi is blocking everything? Only way to browse now is to disable blocking completely. I'm using VPN as a rule, but disconnecting it does not make any difference.

Extract from console:

I'm wondering if this is just local problem on my computer, and if so how to get rid of it?
Using Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon (edge with 5.15 series kernel).
Vivaldi version 5.4.2753.51 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit).

[mib2berlin]

@ceveld
Hi, do you read the thread?
It seams the ad blocker list EasyPrivacy make problems.

@cyrix281 said in Track blocker breaks sites (EasyPrivacy list):

In all cases, disabling EasyPrivacy list in the tracker blockers allows everything to work correctly.

Cheers, mib

[ceveld]

@Pathduck Thank you very much for pointing me in the correct direction. I applied the 'fix' and it worked! I am much happier now :-}!

[Hadden89]

@Pathduck I saw the broken layout often in past and thought was the tracker list to be broken, not the vivaldi mirrored one. I also find the default tracking lists are too overblocking without any way to fine tuning. They should find a softer list to set as default.

[larollz]

I love Vivaldi and have used it without issues for several years. But today, it stopped working : when I load a website, no resources (images, css files,...) is loaded. Thus, almost no website are working correctly.

I removed all my extensions and removed every cookies without success.

When I inspect a page, the console says : "Failed to load resources: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT" for every images, css,...
What is causing this issue ?

I tried on private and got the same behaviour, however on the guest profile or on a new profile, things seems to work. Is there a way to fix my profile without creating a new one ? (Unfortunately, I don't have backups :s)

[laceration]

Re: Track blocker breaks sites (EasyPrivacy list)
I went through the settings thoroughly but didn't get it, so I installed Privacy Badger and uBlock orgin...

[ceveld]

@mib2berlin I just did. I applied the 'fix' and it worked :-}!

[DoctorG]

Always fine on my side, as i could see in Vivaldi settings my EasyPrivacy blocker list was from Sept 14th.

Really strange, now i switched off and on the EasyPrivacy in Vivaldi Settings for Tracker Blocker to get a most recent and all is still ok.

[DoctorG]

https://downloads.vivaldi.com/easylist/easyprivacy-current.txt was last modified: 20 Sep 2022 03:12 UTC.

Unfortunately seems Easyprivacy block list is not always fetched by Vivaldi browser at start. I had one from 7th of September 2022 in my 5.5 Standalone

[reba]

the Fix did not work for me. I disabled all blocking and tracking, disabled all third party lists, deleted cookies from individual sites. I still get broken pages on many of my favorite sites, all of which are major organizations with robust websites.

My only workaround is to copy the link and paste it into Firefox. This is not sustainable. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

[Hadden89]

@DoctorG Is the vivaldi mirror which fails or just the EP list? (I don't use it).
In the latter case using an alt version could help
https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt (daily)
https://fanboy.co.nz/easyprivacy.txt (weekly)

[DoctorG]

@DoctorG fetching the list works for me.