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ELI5: How are these massive adblock lists kept updated so regularly? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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Do they get some kind of real-time feed that tells them "hey this URL popped up in the web today, but it is a tracker, so block it", or is this exercise is mostly helped by the crowd ?

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago

The easy way would be to make a website sign up for all the ads and see what happens. Subtract your website from the data and there's the ads.

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