On: How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works

[kbwt]

This is the call stack I'm looking at:

#0 https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/url_pattern_...

#1 https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/url_pattern_...

#2 https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/url_pattern_...

#3 https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/url_pattern_...

[kodablah → kbwt]

Ah, I didn't dig, but I'd contend that URL length limits would apply and the worst you could do is slow down a client's browser in the same way you could just by multiplying the number of attempted requests to a blockable URL.