Do they get some kind of real-time feed that tells them “hey this URL popped up in the web today, but it is a tracker, so block it”, or is this exercise is mostly helped by the crowd ?
Do they get some kind of real-time feed that tells them “hey this URL popped up in the web today, but it is a tracker, so block it”, or is this exercise is mostly helped by the crowd ?
Regular expression magic.
A lot of ad networks have a pattern to the name or the window the advert appears in.
Using regular expression you can find just the adwindow and ignore the actual content.
Now what is regular expression? A wizard language.
ask any programmer about RE after 4 beers and watch the hate wash over their face.
The first language I learned was Perl, so regex are very close to my heart. I’m also quite excitable when I drink (I’m a happy drunk), so ask me and I’ll give you a very enthusiastic explanation while not noticing that you aren’t interested in my detailed explanation and examples. Do it. I dare ya.
Zawinski’s second law - “Sometimes a person looks at a problem and says ‘I know what I’ll do, I’ll use regular expressions’. And now they have two problems.”