Who Filters the Filters: Understanding the Growth, Usefulness and Efficiency of Crowdsourced Ad Blocking · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1810.09160/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTWho Filters the Filters: Understanding the Growth, Usefulness and Efficiency of Crowdsourced Ad Blocking — mentioned by ehsankiahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20048388urn:hackerpapers:mention:1810.09160:20048388Thu, 30 May 2019 04:28:17 GMT<p>Except that list really is just bloated with rules that don&#x27;t do anything anymore. &gt; We measure how EasyList affects web browsing by applying EasyList to a sample of 10,000 websites. We find that 90.16% of the resource blocking rules in EasyList provide no benefit to users in common browsing scenarios. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.09160.pdf They&#x27;ve also mentioned the possibility of tweaking the 30k limit.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1810.09160/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CR