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Here's the theory behind Europe's #GDPR: if an online service wants to collect, store and/or process your personal information, it has to obtain your real, informed consent for each of those activities. 1/ 
If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2021/11/26/ico… 2/
pluralistic.net/2021/11/26/ico… 2/
In theory, this should have exterminated surveillance-based "behavioral" ads. In practice, nothing of the sort has happened...yet. 3/
I am very proud that @brave decided to base their new Rust adblocker upon github.com/cliqz-oss/adbl…, closely following our implementation and design. I think now might be a good time to reflect on the state of content blockers! #thread
This architecture was the result of lots of research and innovation to push the state of performance in @cliqz and @Ghostery and we think we reached a sweet spot in terms of efficiency: memory usage and performance are *both* great! #cakeandeatittoo
We already showed a few months ago in response to Manifest v3's announcement, how content blockers could be implemented extremely efficiently, even in #javascript, and even without #webassembly (whotracks.me/blog/adblocker…)
