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ELI5: How are these massive adblock lists kept updated so regularly?

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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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JPAKx4@lemmy.sdf.org
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I love regex, I’m not even gonna lie. To be fair, my expressions haven’t been 50+ characters long, but still.

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Zikeji@programming.dev
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Same, I’ve never understood the hate. But then again I memorize based off of patterns and regex in my brain is just a pattern.

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