From 2543814850af83124bf566c5e3f83aac3e47d033 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees1958 <30925856+Kees1958@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:02:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0d2c1f1..dafd4b4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ while the number three Comscore just has a little over 2.5% marketshare. For com about the same advertising traffic on its own website. Number 200 on this list only has a marginal market share of 0.1 % 1n the Alexa top 10000. Imagine how effective URL number 50.000 will -be of your blocklist. Fair chance it will never be triggered. Some adblockers have an option to exclude URL's with low usage (like -AdGuard 'use optimized filters' option) or periodically filter out dead URL's (Opera's and Brave's build-in adblockers). +be of your blocklist. Fair chance it will never be triggered, because you never surf to the websites this tracker is used. Some adblock +extensions have an option to exclude URL's with low usage (like AdGuard 'use optimized filters' option) or periodically filter out dead +URL's (like Opera's and Brave's build-in adblockers claim to do). Opera performed an analysis on the effectiveness of Easylist and reported in a blog that 20 percent of the listed URL were dead and another 60% had a 'hit rate' of less than 1% of all the traffic of the Opera browser users (having agreed to provide telemetry data).