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The API is default rate-limited, so spamming page requests shouldn’t be possible; not behaving like a bot is the relatively easy part – doing so cost-effectively is harder and what I spend more time optimizing for.

In general, a successful web request costs 1 credit: https://doc.agentfirst.dev/endpoints/pricing

Agent First is the name of my startup (https://agentfirst.dev/), which mostly does what you described. :-)

This article is re-reported – and badly written:

“His limbs and head were stuffed in bags in the living room.

“…

“It remains unclear how the victim died.”

Here’s a more informative, earlier article: https://www.pulse.ng/news/ceo-of-gokada-fahim-saleh-found-de...

Perhaps Wells Fargo should finish implementing their website first. They’re missing basic services like letting you make a wire transfer online. Our company is in the middle of switching banks because dealing with them is such a hassle.

While I agree with your hesitancy, Daniel, I submitted this post because I’d seen two (but I was wrong – there were probably three: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845351) submissions on the front page in which Jacob has been accused of crimes (outside any legal system) and I believe letting readers get his side of the story is only fair at this point.

Previously:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11831629

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837901

Blue Coat is rather controversial: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/735941957130817536

Having had several technical discussions with Jacob, I’m certain he’s technically skilled.

(I’m a former Google engineer, have worked on privacy and security software [I created Disconnect, have contributed to HTTPS Everywhere].)

Pastejacking is an interesting new exploit that was discussed last week on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11757973

I took a crack at creating a patch in the form of an extension since I’ve created some similar extensions before (Adblock Fast, Disconnect, Facebook Disconnect). The extension works by providing a small shim to override exploitable JS methods on the webpages you go to.

You can install Hardened Paste for Chrome from the Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hardened-paste/gie...

An Opera port is in review and, if there’s interest, we can also port the extension to Firefox and Safari.

I’m unsure as to why the Product Hunt outrage in particular. Every major distribution platform (the press, social networks, app stores, even Hacker News) favors insiders. Has PH been presented as a solution to this problem? (I never thought so, but perhaps I haven’t been paying such close attention.)

I linked to Disconnect’s apparently abandoned open-source project (https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect), which I presume is the basis of Focus’s blocking.

Yes, see the benchmarks and last FAQ on http://adblockfast.com/.

Edit: Yes to Firefox as well, see https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast/issues/23 for timeline.

As the original developer of Disconnect, on which Focus’s blocking is said to be based, I (with my development team) created a new, open-source ad blocker for Chrome, Opera, and iOS called Adblock Fast (http://adblockfast.com/ and https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast on GitHub) because I think Disconnect became abandonware after I left the project a year and a half ago – there was one commit made to Disconnect in 2015 (https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/commits/master).

No, in Palo Alto. I guess this founder is based here.

Randomly, I met one of the founders of Intellectual Ventures today. I wasn’t sure if I was resolving the name right and, unfortunately in retrospect, I didn’t ask, ”Oh, the massive patent troll?”

Ty! Do you mind filing a bug against the repo, so we have a good place to follow up?

Correct, Adblock Fast’s blocking is meant to be “good enough” (and not catch every single, last ad) but in exchange for much better browser perf than other ad blockers or no ad blocker.

Pull requests welcome! (Especially if you figure out a non-clunky way to implement custom lists.)

Open source, free, and no “acceptable” ads!: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adblock-fast/id1032930802

I’m one of the devs and here’s the code: https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast

So your claim is that the performance difference between Adblock Fast and uBlock is a wash because uBlock only uses 70% more memory? Heh.

Cool, ty!

Understood, but the title got edited a couple times – could you edit back to something more neutral? (E.g., at one point the title was plain, old “Show HN: Adblock Fast”.)

There are three things at the top of page that are brand new and people can try out (plus we sent almost 100 copies of the iOS app so far to people who signed up this morning):

* https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nneejgmhfoecfeoffa...

* https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/adblock-fast/

* https://github.com/rocketshipapps/adblockfast

There’s an install button for both Chrome and Opera at the top of the page. Wtf?

All the benchmarks were run in Chrome (there are a few notes on methodology in-page).

We didn’t benchmark uBlock [Origin], but I just ”ran” the filesize benchmark :-):

* uBlock Origin: 1.41 MB

* uBlock: 3.54 MB

* Adblock Fast: 96.59 KB

Yes, they are.