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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by nicoburns on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:55PM (#46506939)
Normally it would omly be the diff from a previous version. But yes, it's not really practical for small companies or individuals atm. Larger companies do exactly this.

We need better tooling to enable crowdsourcing and make it accessible for everyone.

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by ashishb on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:49PM (#46507349)
> Larger companies do exactly this.

Someone committed malicious code into Amazon Developer Q. AWS published a malicious version of their own extension. https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-...

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