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mizzack
on July 30, 2015
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The adblocking revolution is months away
Adaway just modifies your /etc/hosts file to redirect ad domains to localhost. That definitely doesn't seem expensive...
coldpie
on July 30, 2015
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Parsing a huge /etc/hosts for every single hostname lookup certainly is expensive.
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I'm not sure what the practical limits are on host file size, but I just checked my phone with up to date AdAway lists and it's sitting at 56429 lines (with about 10 or so of those being comments)
recursive
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It seems unlikely that it's actually implemented that way.
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