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by pythux 8y ago
> How does Cliqz make money? We're currently proposing a mix of client-side private offers (not unlike Brave) and paid products (e.g.: Ghostery premium, and more are being worked on as we speak). Users should have a choice. > I n
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by pythux 8y ago
Hey, Cliqz employee here. I'd like to clarify a few things since I don't think your comment is accurate. 1. Cliqz is not an advertising company, it's a search company and we push hard for privacy protection in everything we d
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Benchmarking is always a hard problem - no such thing as spherical chickens in a vacuum. That said we'd love to at least standardize the setup for other people running the benchmarks; that is why we opened all the code and data, as a s
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> Some things are very wonky with the experiment: Thank you for taking the time to read this study. We do not think we claimed anything that was false in this study (although the scope might not be as wide as some would expect or desire)
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Thanks a lot for your comment. The project is open source and everything needed to run the study comparisons is available as well there: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/adblocker/tree/master/bench/com..
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by pythux 8y ago
> It might be the case these adblockers are well written but you can't guarantee that for all extensions. If a user doesn't have an obvious way to know it's the fault of an extension then Chrome gets the blame. It has been
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by pythux 8y ago
Good point and we should certainly have mentioned it. AdBlock is using the same underlying engine that Adblock Plus is developing (adblockpluscore), which means they have the same performance when it comes to matching requests (there could
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As far as I know WebAssembly in uBlock Origin is currently used for two things: 1. Matching the $domain option using an optimized Trie data-structure 2. Parsing domains using the public suffix list, also based on a Trie data-structure I wou
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I agree with you, and that's why I would like to see this declarative API being an addition to the current WebRequest API. This way there could be extensions using it exclusively and users could decide to pick these if they offer suffi
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What I'm afraid of is the following: * The blocking engine operated by either Safari or Chrome is a black-box and independent devs will have a harder time understanding it, tweaking it, improving it, debugging it. * Chrome devs are now
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Hey, disclaimer: I worked on this study. I would love to hear your thoughts about this. From our point of view, the argument is not that the native content blocker is slow or fast but instead that it's not an acceptable trade-off, for
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Thanks for the replay. Disclaimer, I worked on this study. > There's a few issues with the conclusion here. First, they article measures and discusses only the time required to block a single request. Modern web pages are issuing ma
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Hey, dislaimer: I worked on this study. Thank you for your comment. To me this reaction from the Chromium devs is missing one of the most fundamental issues. I'm not fundamentally against the declarative API because of technical limita
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Show HN: Tldts – Fast Domains and URLs Parsing (written in TypeScript)(remusao.github.io)
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Babel makes extensive use of Flow. So I guess that counts as expressive static typing.
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I wrote some comparison some time ago https://github.com/remusao/anagrams-bench/blob/master/README... Unfortunately, as you suggest, the complexity of arbitrary precision multiplication kicks in and perf
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Thank you for the clarification! Do you know how much time is lost between the time a request is handled by the kernel in C++ and the time it would trigger a callback of the web request API? In other words, what is the overhead of the JS AP
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> Brave is just a top-speed (better than using JS in extension code) blocker Did you run some comparison to back this? I would love to see some numbers.
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Very nice, and scary at the same time... I feel that too often we consider that by using some content-blocking extensions (e.g.: uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc.) we are 100% safe and privacy leakages are a thing of the past. But from wh
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Packaging Node.js Apps the Easy Way(remusao.github.io)
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Monitoring Your Internet Bandwidth with a Raspberry Pi(remusao.github.io)
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Show HN: Simple-Sanic, a Blazing Fast Http.server Replacement Using Sanic(remusao.github.io)
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Generating Ad-Blocker filters from whotracks.me data(whotracks.me)
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Getting the Most Out of Sqlite3 with Python(remusao.github.io)
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