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I'm not sure I understand. If everybody can bypass the 50k limit, what's the point of the limit? If the 50k limit isn't sufficiently high, I don't think, "they
by danShumway 7y ago
I'm not sure I understand. If everybody can bypass the 50k limit, what's the point of the limit?
If the 50k limit isn't sufficiently high, I don't think, "they're trying to restrict blockers, but don't worry they're bad at it" is a great defense. And if the 50k limit is high enough, and it's a reasonable tradeoff between privacy and performance, then why are content blockers putting in extra work to bypass it?
Should we expect that Apple will block the limit workaround in the future?
- hombre_fatal 7y agoOne guess: Without a limit, developers would probably default to a massive append-only list that takes a minute to compile. With a limit, developers have to shard their rules which lets them at least compile them in parallel. For example, you need to recompile the list if you want to support on-the-fly customizations like "whitelist this site."