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 ?
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 ?
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.
I love regex, I’m not even gonna lie. To be fair, my expressions haven’t been 50+ characters long, but still.
Same, I’ve never understood the hate. But then again I memorize based off of patterns and regex in my brain is just a pattern.