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ELI5: How are these massive adblock lists kept updated so regularly? (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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Regex absolutely has many great uses. The issue is people trying to use for things they shouldn't. Then it suddenly becomes a nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I parse [X]HTML with regex?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can parse any plaintext with regex, but I would recommend using XPath for that use case, instead.