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URLs are matched via a regex or wildcard type syntax, to eliminate files served out of /ad/ paths (yes, people still do this).

This makes hashes somewhat less useful. And a distinct hash of a URL could likely be considered to be the URL itself for the purposes of a legal action.




Regexp could still work by only hashing the domain name and keeping the regexp separate.




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