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As one of an extremely large group of people who will never use that library but DO get protected from some ads and tracking by blacklisting beacon.js, I disagree that it's an issue with ad blockers.

The internet is a toxic place, to put it mildly, and if you're getting into any kind of public facing service on it, you need to know exactly what you're doing.

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Wait, you're saying that a false positive in an ad blocker is _not_ an issue with the ad blocker? Of course it is! Blocking files based solely on their names is a brittle and error-prone way of doing things, and this false positive is a clear example of that.

For sure it's a false positive and I wish it didn't happen. But it does happen and there's no way I'm ditching my ad blocker just because of some small number of false positives.

I totally agree with you, but I think adblockers could do better than just block all requests that have "beacon.js" in it. But yeah, I definitely prefer many protected users about one working library :)

There are so many possibilities to block content, I'm sure that we could do better with protecting users against tracking while ensuring that less content gets blocked false-positive.

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