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Octoth0rpetoday at 2:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Built-in ad blocking — a precompiled WKContentRuleList blocks 14 major ad networks (DoubleClick, Google Syndication, Criteo, Taboola, Outbrain, Amazon ads, etc.) right in the WebKit layer. No extensions needed. Toggleable in settings

This is a good start, but I think a better approach would be to piggyback off of ublock origin's lists. Hopefully less maintenance that way too.


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Someonetoday at 2:50 PM

> I think a better approach would be to piggyback off of ublock origin's lists

That won’t work. uBlock origin is licensed GPLv3 (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock), this code is MIT licensed (https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News).

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IronsideXXVItoday at 2:37 PM

Sweet, I will have a look. Thank you.

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