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> why the limit for 50000 filter rules in use at one time? Eventually more rules will cause a performance impact.

• close04 7y ago
  Put a disclaimer/warning and let the user decide whether the trade-off is worth it. Ads tend to have far higher performance and power consumption impact than this. Do Safari or Chrome force downscaled pictures and videos on you because it's faster? How is any other software "limited" for performance? And if this is a performance issue then why a fixed limit instead of one that varies with your system's performance? Edit. HN is "hinting" at me that a developer setting arbitrarily low limits "for performance" and not allowing a change is reasonable and expected. Strange place to be told that manufacturer defaults are sacred and the "advanced settings" checkbox should be abolished. For performance, stability, all that. :)
• glogla 7y ago
  They can't possibly cause as much performance impact as allowing ads through.
• buran77 7y ago
  So do tabs and I can still open 500 (maybe more already) on a 4 year old phone. No scenario I can imagine relies on having so many tabs open at once. The 50000 rules limit is far more crippling to blockers since you need those rules at once.
  • stjohnswarts 7y ago
    Hint: Those tabs aren't really tabs, they're pretty much just text links, they are not loaded into memory. 99% of them NOT running. If all 500 of those tabs ran in parallel you wouldn't be able to use your phone.