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ELI5: How are these massive adblock lists kept updated so regularly? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe a general pop-up blocker which is built into modern browsers now, but something that blocks tracking and ads (for example uBlock Origin, AdGuard Home, PiHole...) works off of a list which is kept up to date by crowdsourcing. I've never contributed to one of these efforts, but there are lots of people dedicated to the cause.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

So there's like a Wikipedia crew of ad blocker contributors? I had no idea, that's pretty cool. Thank you adblock crew.