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Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl... by randomstring on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:58PM (#20594497)
Maybe Autotrader has hundreds of thousands of template, CSS, and JS files with those paths hardcoded. Imagine the hell it would be to work on that website.

Even so, you could fix everything with a one line Perl command.

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Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl... by dilutedh2o on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:40PM (#20594923)
I would love to see an example of something like this.

Please.

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Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl... by therealx on Saturday August 03, 2019 @12:54AM (#20598753)
I've seen backends that were that horrible. Updates were often done via regex's.
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Re:‘Just four dudes’: Inside EasyList, a community-run ad-bl... by dilutedh2o on Saturday August 03, 2019 @01:52AM (#20598902)
That's basically half of my day to day at the moment, that's why I'm wondering
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