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Some refinement on tracking list

During the testing of CD 1.5.4 I found out that tracker blocker list
needs much more loving.
I noticed that sometimes it did not give as many blocked tracker results
as competition tracker blockers. So it definetely needs more accurate
results and more entries.

So now I have a list that has 35 000 entries and I am planning
to go throught it during this week and see if it can be optimized with regular expressions.

The more tracker entries there are on that list the longer it will delay connections because CD will check that list for each connection except for downloads and proxy fetching.

For connections throught proxies the full force of tracker blocker is of course used.
As is also cookie blocking and mixed content protection.

Hopefully the final optimized and compacted list will be 10 000 - 15 000 but still having
the power of blocking 35 000 trackers,scripts,ads etc.....

Of course that list will be included with CD 1.5.5 that is out after Christmas but not before New Year.

Surf Safe!

Posted by Stefan Fröberg 2013-12-11

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