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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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[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And here are uBlockOrigin's filterlist issue tracker: https://github.com/ublockorigin/uassets/issues

On the issue comment you can see maintainers @-ing each other to add things to upstream lists, so it's all one big community rather than being extension specific.