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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by 7e on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:51PM (#46508873)
Why don't they put these ads behind a Bloom filter? That's a lot of memory use, even with FlatBuffers.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by skaul on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:09PM (#46515071)
We used to use Bloom filters in 2019, funnily enough: https://brave.com/blog/improved-ad-blocker-performance/
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