Problem with Beta 5.0:
I can't tell if this is an issue with easylist or an issue with the latest beta update and how it is parsing the list, today I updated my pihole only to not be able to access almost every website for example twitter.com is blocked in pihole from the easylist
The new version of Pi-hole (5.0 beta and later) has improved blocklist import criteria. You are feeding lists of incorrect format to Pi-hole, and it is refusing the invalid entries.
Adblock lists are not formatted in HOSTS format, the format required by Pi-hole.
Disable or remove those lists, rebuild gravity and see if your twitter problem remains.
so the easylist's [Adblock Plus 2.0] format is no longer supported at all? A lot of lists are in this format, I don't think users will be happy with this change
This isn't much of a new change. Support for this type of lists was dropped in Sep 2019 in Pi-hole V4.3.2.
Your lists likely haven't been loading properly ever since then, if you have been using these lists. What has changed in Pi-hole V5 is that the gravity script tells you how many domains from the list were rejected.
In V4 of Pi-hole, this is the section of the gravity output when it gets to that easylist. The V5.0 gravity output has more detail.
[i] Target: easylist.to (easylist.txt)
[β] Status: Retrieval successful
[β] Format: Adblock (list type not supported)
Let's take an example of a single line from the easylist that is being mostly rejected:
How do you think this should be parsed and converted into something Pi-hole can use (a single domain)? What's the domain here that is being blocked?
Trying to import lists that are written for an entirely different form of adblocker is pointless. This is like putting gasoline in your diesel automobile and being surprised that the vehicle won't run.
I was just assuming that since this is popular format and a popular list it would continue to be supported but yes I understand, I find it odd I have been using the 5.0 beta when it came out and haven't ran into this issue until today
You noted that you just updated your beta today. There have been a number of changes since it's release a few months ago. If you haven't updated until now you would not have seen the changes until now. The changes since release have included changes to the gravity script.
When you removed the list(s), did your twitter problem resolve?