An open note to EasylList

Dear EasyList,

While we have a high level of regard for the work you do in improving the online encounter of your users, we have been forced to receive exception to the allegations and accusations leveled against us, our business and our throng during communications with you since your selection to add our website domain, admitad.com, to your block list on January 16th, 2023.

This open note is written and published in the name of openness, transparency and in the aspiration of reconciliation.

To us, the blocking of our corporation’s top-level domain was highly unfair. We openly resist this selection, as we do its implications that our website – and thus our corporation as a whole – is somehow undesirable or risky to your users, “unwanted content from the internet”, as your website puts it.

Admitad.com is an informational website like any other homepage – one that describes us, our products and our services. It contains none of the advertising types or techniques your product is designed to filter out.

Is it really EasyList’s responsibility to police the websites its users visit – and visit voluntarily? What happened to free will and their users’ ability to choose for themselves which information they access and digest?

This instance of your product overstepping its boundaries makes one wonder – which other companies have fallen foul of EasyList and have found themselves on EasyList’s block list? What was the criteria EasyList judged them on? How deep does EasyList’s control over what its users view and do online really leave?

When our manager reached out to you to inquire you to reconsider the blocking of our homepage, the response she received was impolite and unprofessional to declare the least.

But again we try to open a constructive exchange. We repeat: we back your mission of clearing the internet of unfiltered advertising. We, as a user-concentrated corporation, distribute these interests and are more than willing to discover ways to collaborate with you on forwarding them.

Your users would probably consent with us if you gave them the chance to discover out for themselves.

Therefore, we kindly and openly inquire you to regard the rights of our shared users, of which there are many, and stop blocking sites that have nothing to do with your own blocking policy.

We remain open to a fair, respectful exchange – one that will hopefully outcome in the removing of our parent domain from your block list.

Thank you,
Your Admitad throng

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