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 ?

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Regular expression magic.

    A lot of ad networks have a pattern to the name or the window the advert appears in.

    Using regular expression you can find just the adwindow and ignore the actual content.

    Now what is regular expression? A wizard language.
    ask any programmer about RE after 4 beers and watch the hate wash over their face.