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Efficient embeddable adblocker library

5 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2019-02-16 · latest 2020-08-08

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  1. Very cool implementation. I am wondering have you considered using something like https://github.com/cliqz-oss/adblocker which can sit on top of headless browser and do not require bridging to an extension.
  2. …still disallow plugins, such as ad blockers? Hey, I work on Cliqz' adblocker (open-source here: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/adblocker ). Cliqz browser comes built-in with adblocking, anti-tracking, anti-phishing and private search…
    comment by pythux · 2019-12-01 · in The world needs more search engines
  3. …user is interested in, perhaps add a flag for whether or not one wants ads to load. Recommendation: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/adblocker Should be the fastest adblocker library (used by Ghostery, Cliqz and Brave)
  4. It’s actually a Rust implementation of https://github.com/cliqz-oss/adblocker . So you can interpret the difference in the chart between Ghostery and Brave as being how much Rust improved performance over Node.js
  5. …is open source and everything needed to run the study comparisons is available as well there: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/adblocker/tree/master/bench/com... We would be really happy to see people running the same benchmarks and try to…
    comment by pythux · 2019-02-16 · in Adblockers Performance Study