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A comment on ‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-blocking list. Parent comment

Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl... by ryandrake on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:46PM (#20594394)
I've been working in big tech companies for too long. When I got to that part, I thought to myself, "Wait, they think hundreds of thousands is a lot of content? That should be fixable over someone's lunch break!"
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Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl... by jrockway on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:39PM (#20594913)
What big tech company do you work at that can edit other people's websites to link to renamed URLs? I am sure that "mv /www-data/adverts /www-data/foobar" is a trivial operation. Making links work (adblock will block the 302 you skillfully put in place) is harder.
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Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl... by ryandrake on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:57PM (#20595607)
Ahh--the lunch break comment assumed that this was a local change to hundreds of thousands of pages, so disregard that. I was commenting more on the notion that hundreds of thousands of files/urls/database records is a lot. It sounds like a lot to the average reader.
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